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L.M. Montgomery and Gender |
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An exploration of L.M. Montgomery’s challenges to gender constructions from her best- and her lesser-known works.
The celebrated author of Anne of Green Gables and Emily of New Moon receives much-deserved additional consideration in L.M. Montgomery and Gender. Nineteen contributors take a variety of critical and theoretical positions, from historical analyses of the White Feather campaign and discussions of adoption to medical discourses of death and disease, explorations of Montgomery’s use of humour, and the author’s rewriting of masculinist traditions.
The essays span Montgomery’s writing, exploring her famous Anne and Emily books as well as her short fiction, her comic journal composed with her friend Nora Lefurgey, and less-studied novels such as Magic for Marigold and The Blue Castle. Dividing the chapters into five sections - on masculinities and femininities, domestic space, humour, intertexts, and being in time - L.M. Montgomery and Gender addresses the degree to which Montgomery’s work engages and exposes, reflects and challenges the gender roles around her, underscoring how her writing has shaped future representations of gender.
Of interest to historians, feminists, gender scholars, scholars of literature, and Montgomery enthusiasts, this wide-ranging collection builds on the depth of current scholarship in its approach to the complexity of gender in the works of one of Canada’s best-loved authors.
The essays span Montgomery’s writing, exploring her famous Anne and Emily books as well as her short fiction, her comic journal composed with her friend Nora Lefurgey, and less-studied novels such as Magic for Marigold and The Blue Castle. Dividing the chapters into five sections - on masculinities and femininities, domestic space, humour, intertexts, and being in time - L.M. Montgomery and Gender addresses the degree to which Montgomery’s work engages and exposes, reflects and challenges the gender roles around her, underscoring how her writing has shaped future representations of gender.
Of interest to historians, feminists, gender scholars, scholars of literature, and Montgomery enthusiasts, this wide-ranging collection builds on the depth of current scholarship in its approach to the complexity of gender in the works of one of Canada’s best-loved authors.
Details
416 Pages, 6 x 9
7 photos
ISBN 9780228008781
November 2021
Formats: Cloth, Paperback, eBook
"A book-length study on this author's rich and complex relationship with gender norms and expectations, and her myriad depictions of gender, is overdue. Because modern understanding of gender identity and contemporary awareness of gender issues are increasingly prominent in cultural discussions, this book, with its many perspectives on gender in Montgomery's work, is extraordinarily timely." Caroline Jones, Austin Community College
E. Holly Pike is associate professor in the English program at Grenfell Campus, Memorial University.
Laura M. Robinson is dean of arts and professor of English and theatre, cross-appointed women's and gender studies at Acadia University.
Laura M. Robinson is dean of arts and professor of English and theatre, cross-appointed women's and gender studies at Acadia University.
Figures ix
Acknowledgments xi
Abbreviations xiii
INTRODUCTION
“You Don’t Want Me Because I’m Not a Boy”: L.M. Montgomery and Gender 1
E. Holly Pike and Laura M. Robinson
MASCULINITIES AND FEMININITIES 17
1 The White Feather: Gender and War in L.M. Montgomery’s Rilla of Ingleside 19
Kazuko Sakuma
2 From “Uncanny Beauty” to “Uncanny Disease”: Destabilizing Gender through the Deaths of Ruby Gillis and Walter Blythe and the Life of Anne Shirley 44
Lesley D. Clement
3 Barney of the Island: Nature and Gender in Montgomery’s The Blue Castle 68
Ashley N. Reese
DOMESTIC SPACE 87
4 The Robinsonade versus the Annescapade: Exploring the “Adventure” in Anne of Green Gables 89
Bonnie J. Tulloch
5 Soliciting Home: The Cultural Function of Orphans in Early Twentieth-Century Canada 119
Mavis Reimer
6 “That House Belongs to Me”: The Appropriation of Patriarchal Space in L.M. Montgomery’s Emily Trilogy 152
Rebecca J. Thompson
HUMOUR 173
7 Cross-Dressing: Twins, Language, and Gender in L.M. Montgomery’s Short Fiction 175
E. Holly Pike
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” 195
Wanda Campbell
9 “Nora and I Got Through the Evening”: Gender Roles and Romance in the Diary of L.M. Montgomery and Nora Lefurgey 211
Vappu Kannas
INTERTEXTS 229
10 The Blue Castle: Sex and the Revisionist Fairy Tale 233
Catherine Clark
11 L.M. Montgomery, E. Pauline Johnson, and the Figure of the “Half-Breed Girl” 249
Carole Gerson
12 Orgies of Lovemaking: L.M. Montgomery’s Feminine Version of the Augustinian Community 266
Christina Hitchcock and Kiera Ball
13 Feminizing Thomson’s The Seasons: Identity, Gender, and Seasonal Aesthetics in L.M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables 284
Heather Ladd and Erin Spring
BEING IN TIME 305
14 Her Reader 309
Jane Urquhart
15 Like a Childless Mother: L.M. Montgomery and the Anguish of Mother’s Loss 316
Tara K. Parmiter
16 Magic for Marigold: Engendering Questions about What Lasts 331
Elizabeth Rollins Epperly
Bibliography 351
Contributors 377
Index 383
Acknowledgments xi
Abbreviations xiii
INTRODUCTION
“You Don’t Want Me Because I’m Not a Boy”: L.M. Montgomery and Gender 1
E. Holly Pike and Laura M. Robinson
MASCULINITIES AND FEMININITIES 17
1 The White Feather: Gender and War in L.M. Montgomery’s Rilla of Ingleside 19
Kazuko Sakuma
2 From “Uncanny Beauty” to “Uncanny Disease”: Destabilizing Gender through the Deaths of Ruby Gillis and Walter Blythe and the Life of Anne Shirley 44
Lesley D. Clement
3 Barney of the Island: Nature and Gender in Montgomery’s The Blue Castle 68
Ashley N. Reese
DOMESTIC SPACE 87
4 The Robinsonade versus the Annescapade: Exploring the “Adventure” in Anne of Green Gables 89
Bonnie J. Tulloch
5 Soliciting Home: The Cultural Function of Orphans in Early Twentieth-Century Canada 119
Mavis Reimer
6 “That House Belongs to Me”: The Appropriation of Patriarchal Space in L.M. Montgomery’s Emily Trilogy 152
Rebecca J. Thompson
HUMOUR 173
7 Cross-Dressing: Twins, Language, and Gender in L.M. Montgomery’s Short Fiction 175
E. Holly Pike
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” 195
Wanda Campbell
9 “Nora and I Got Through the Evening”: Gender Roles and Romance in the Diary of L.M. Montgomery and Nora Lefurgey 211
Vappu Kannas
INTERTEXTS 229
10 The Blue Castle: Sex and the Revisionist Fairy Tale 233
Catherine Clark
11 L.M. Montgomery, E. Pauline Johnson, and the Figure of the “Half-Breed Girl” 249
Carole Gerson
12 Orgies of Lovemaking: L.M. Montgomery’s Feminine Version of the Augustinian Community 266
Christina Hitchcock and Kiera Ball
13 Feminizing Thomson’s The Seasons: Identity, Gender, and Seasonal Aesthetics in L.M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables 284
Heather Ladd and Erin Spring
BEING IN TIME 305
14 Her Reader 309
Jane Urquhart
15 Like a Childless Mother: L.M. Montgomery and the Anguish of Mother’s Loss 316
Tara K. Parmiter
16 Magic for Marigold: Engendering Questions about What Lasts 331
Elizabeth Rollins Epperly
Bibliography 351
Contributors 377
Index 383
