Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 338 Seiten)
ISBN:
9780228014836
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9780228014843
Content:
From Jane Austen to contemporary fanfiction and adaptations, literary portrayals of the child and imaginings of childhood are indicators of cultural values and when they shift. Children and Childhoods in L.M. Montgomeryaddresses Montgomery's challenges to prescribed assumptions about childhood, and positions her novels as essential texts in twenty-first century literary, childhood, and youth studies.
Content:
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations Used in Notes -- Introduction -- Part One: Conversing with the Past: Vulnerability, Resistance, and Resilience -- 1 Emily of New Moon and Fanny of Mansfield Park: Childhood at Home in Jane Austen and L.M. Montgomery -- 2 L.M. Montgomery's Precocious Children: Resisting Adult Narratives of Death, Dying, and the Afterlife -- 3 Vulnerable Situations: Boys and Boyhood in the Emily Books -- Part Two: Conversing with the Present: Fantasy, the Ideal, and the Real -- 4 The Performance of the Beautiful Dream Boy in Novels by L.M. Montgomery and Frances Hodgson Burnett -- 5 Lost Boys and Lost Girls: The Kindred Offspring of J.M. Barrie and L.M. Montgomery -- 6 Magic for Marigold, Childhood, and Fiction -- Part Three: Continuing Literary Conversations: Transformative Relationships and Spaces -- 7 Loving, Larking, and Lying: Free-Spirited Children and Disciplinary Adults in the Works of L.M. Montgomery and Astrid Lindgren -- 8 Absent Fathers: Conversations between L.M. Montgomery and Madeleine L'Engle -- 9 Transformative Girlhood and Twenty-First-Century Girldom in L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables -- Part Four: Continuing Transmediated Conversations: Anime, Fanfiction, and Television Adaptations -- 10 The Problems and Possibilities Inherent in Adaptation: Emily of New Moon and Emily, Girl of the Wind -- 11 Continuing Stories: L.M. Montgomery and Fanfiction in the Digital Era -- 12 Anne with an Edge: CBC-Netflix's Rereading of Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables -- Afterwords -- Preface to the Afterwords -- Emily Kent - The Afterlife of Emily of New Moon -- Anne's Nature -- My Maud by Katie Maurice -- Dear Maud -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780228013884
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780228013891
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Children and childhoods in L.M. Montgomery Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022 ISBN 0228013895
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780228013891
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780228013884
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0228013887
Language:
English
Keywords:
Montgomery, L. M. 1874-1942
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