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The celebrated author receives much-deserved additional consideration in L.M. Montgomery and Gender. Of interest to historians, feminists, gender scholars, scholars of literature, and Montgomery enthusiasts, this collection builds on current...
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The celebrated author receives much-deserved additional consideration in L.M. Montgomery and Gender. Of interest to historians, feminists, gender scholars, scholars of literature, and Montgomery enthusiasts, this collection builds on current scholarship in its approach to the complexity of gender in the works of one of Canada's best-loved authors.
Cover -- L.M. MONTGOMERY AND GENDER -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- INTRODUCTION "You Don't Want Me Because I'm Not a Boy": L.M. Montgomery and Gender -- MASCULINITIES AND FEMININITIES -- 1 The White Feather: Gender and War in L.M. Montgomery's Rilla of Ingleside -- 2 From "Uncanny Beauty" to "Uncanny Disease": Destabilizing Gender through the Deaths of Ruby Gillis and Walter Blythe and the Life of Anne Shirley -- 3 Barney of the Island: Nature and Gender in Montgomery's The Blue Castle -- DOMESTIC SPACE -- 4 The Robinsonade versus the Annescapade: Exploring the "Adventure" in Anne of Green Gables -- 5 Soliciting Home: The Cultural Function of Orphans in Early Twentieth-Century Canada -- 6 "That House Belongs to Me": The Appropriation of Patriarchal Space in L.M. Montgomery's Emily Trilogy -- HUMOUR -- 7 Cross-Dressing: Twins, Language, and Gender in L.M. Montgomery's Short Fiction -- 8 "I'm Noted for That": Comic Subversion and Gender in L.M. Montgomery's "The Quarantine at Alexander Abraham's" and "Aunt Philippa and the Men" -- 9 "Nora and I Got Through the Evening": Gender Roles and Romance in the Diary of L.M. Montgomery and Nora Lefurgey -- INTERTEXTS -- 10 The Blue Castle: Sex and the Revisionist Fairy Tale -- 11 L.M. Montgomery, E. Pauline Johnson, and the Figure of the "Half-Breed Girl" -- 12 Orgies of Lovemaking: L.M. Montgomery's Feminine Version of the Augustinian Community -- 13 Feminizing Thomson's The Seasons: Identity, Gender, and Seasonal Aesthetics in L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables -- BEING IN TIME -- 14 Her Reader -- 15 Like a Childless Mother: L.M. Montgomery and the Anguish of Mother's Loss -- 16 Magic for Marigold: Engendering Questions about What Lasts -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.