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L. M. Montgomery's Emily of New Moon : A Children's Classic at 100
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L. M. Montgomery's Emily of New Moon : A Children's Classic at 100 / Yan Du, Joe Sutliff Sanders.
ISBN
9781496852540
9781496852496
9781496852502
Publication
Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2024.
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2024
Copyright Notice Date
©2024.
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1 online resource.
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Summary
"Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942) was a Canadian author best known for writing the wildly popular Anne of Green Gables. At the time of its publication in 1908, it was an immediate bestseller and launched Montgomery to fame. Less known than the dreamy and accidentally mischievous Anne Shirley is Emily Byrd Starr, the title character in the trilogy that followed much later in Montgomery's professional career, Emily of New Moon. Published in 1923, Emily of New Moon is the first in a series of novels about an orphan girl growing up on Prince Edward Island, a story that mirrors Anne's but intentionally resists many of the defining qualities of Montgomery's most famous creation. Despite being overshadowed by the immense popularity of Anne of Green Gables, the Emily of New Moon trilogy has become a subject of endless fascination to fans and scholars around the world. The trilogy was conceived during an important phase in Montgomery's career during which she turned from Anne and plunged into more intricate aspects of gender, adolescence, nature, and authorship. While the novels have attracted rich critical attention since their publication, book-length studies proved surprisingly scarce. L. M. Montgomery's "Emily of New Moon": A Children's Classic at 100 is the first scholarly volume exclusively dedicated to the trilogy, coalescing different research perspectives. It offers a fresh point of entrance into a well-loved classic at its one-hundredth anniversary"-- Provided by publisher.
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Project MUSE complete collection 2024.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 26, 2024
Series
Children's literature association series
Contents
Introduction / Yan Du and Joe Sutliff Sanders
Chapter 1. Warring with failure: "Emily's Quest" and the Victorian past / Kate Lawson
Chapter 2. Exile and instrumentality in the Emily books / Jessica Wen Hui Lim
Chapter 3. Emily Byrd Starr meets Brene Brown: "Braving the Wilderness" and achieving "True Belonging" / Lesley D. Clement
Chapter 4. Everyday objects: material culture in the Emily trilogy / Allison McBain Hudson
Chapter 5. "Something incalculably precious": diary writing in "Emily of New Moon" / Lindsey McMaster
Chapter 6. The Japanese reception of the Emily trilogy through translation / Yoshiko Akamatsu
Chapter 7. Claiming and reclaiming the maternal: mothering and mothers in the Emily books / Rita Bode
Chapter 8. "A ghost you can 'feel" and "hear' but never 'see'": queer hauntings in "Emily of New Moon" / Katharine Slater
Chapter 9. The romance of history in the Emily novels / E. Holly Pike
Chapter 10. Encroaching darkness: L.M. Montgomery's books about Emily / Carol L. Beran
Chapter 11. Reading Emily out of time and place: breaking chronology and space / Margaret Steffler
Chapter 12. Emily's afterlives: trauma, repetition, and (re)reading in "Emily of New Moon" and "Russian Doll" / Anastasia Ulanowicz
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