| Harvesting Thistles |
| The Textual Garden of L.M. Montgomery Essays on her Novels and Journals |
| Edited by Mary Henley Rubio |
This collection of essays calls for new interpretative
strategies in reading the texts of Lucy Maud Montgomery
(1874-1942), author of Anne of Green Gables (1908). Long
overlooked in academic critical discourse as a writer of
popular and children's fiction, Montgomery is reread here in
the light of gender and cultural studies, as well as of
autobiographical theory. The first section of essays places
Montgomery and her texts (including her journals) in a
literary and cultural context; the second section focuses on
selected individual novels. In these essays by an
international group of scholars from the United Kingdom, the
United States, Scandinavia, and Canada, Montgomery is
established as an immensely influential writer who has gained
and maintained a world-wide readership throughout the
twentieth century.
A best-selling author in her native Canada and throughout the
world, Montgomery published some twenty books, over five
hundred short stories and over five hundred poems during her
lifetime. At her death she left ten volumes of unpublished
500-page journals, covering the years from 1889-1942, whose
recent publication has added immensely to our understanding
of the interior life of a woman of her era.
strategies in reading the texts of Lucy Maud Montgomery
(1874-1942), author of Anne of Green Gables (1908). Long
overlooked in academic critical discourse as a writer of
popular and children's fiction, Montgomery is reread here in
the light of gender and cultural studies, as well as of
autobiographical theory. The first section of essays places
Montgomery and her texts (including her journals) in a
literary and cultural context; the second section focuses on
selected individual novels. In these essays by an
international group of scholars from the United Kingdom, the
United States, Scandinavia, and Canada, Montgomery is
established as an immensely influential writer who has gained
and maintained a world-wide readership throughout the
twentieth century.
A best-selling author in her native Canada and throughout the
world, Montgomery published some twenty books, over five
hundred short stories and over five hundred poems during her
lifetime. At her death she left ten volumes of unpublished
500-page journals, covering the years from 1889-1942, whose
recent publication has added immensely to our understanding
of the interior life of a woman of her era.
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| _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ TABLE OF CONTENTS |
Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Table of Contents List of Contributors PART ONE: CONTEXTS Introduction: Harvesting Thistles in Montgomery's Textual Garden Mary Henley Rubio "Mayflowers grow in Sweden too": L. M. Montgomery, Astrid Lindgren and the Swedish Literary Consciousness Gabriella Åhmansson Readers Reading L. M. Montgomery Catherine Sheldrick Ross Sisterhood is Fearful: Female Friendship in L. M. Montgomery Temma F. Berg The Heroine Who Writes and Her Creator E. Holly Pike Anne Shirley's American Cousin: The Girl of the Limberlost Clara Thomas Written as Women Write: Anne of Green Gables within the Female Literary Tradition Patricia Kelly Santelmann Approaching the Montgomery Manuscripts Elizabeth R. Epperly The Religious Thought of L. M. Montgomery Gavin White A Note on Montgomery's Use of a "Contemporary Legend" in Emily Climbs Edith Fowke "I mean to try, as far as in me lies, to paint my life and deeds truthfully": Autobiographical Process in the L. M. Montgomery Journals Margaret E. Turner Snapshot Portraits: Finding L.M. Montgomery in Her "Dear Den" Laura Higgins Negotiating Friendships: The Reading and Writing of L.M. Montgomery Denyse Yeast PART TWO: TEXTS L. M. Montgomery's Rilla of Ingleside: Intention, Inclusion, Implosion Owen Dudley Edwards Wedding Bells and Death Knells: The Writer as Bride in the Emily Trilogy Marie Campbell Textual/Sexual Space in The Blue Castle: Valancy Stirling's "Room of Her Own" Gabriella Åhmansson Marigold and the Magic of Memory Elizabeth Waterston "Strewn with Dead Bodies": Women and Gossip in Anne of Ingleside Jennie Rubio Index |
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ABOUT THE SUBJECT Lucy Maud Montgomery |
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ABOUT THE EDITOR Mary Henley Rubio |
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