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American Women's Regionalist Fiction: Mapping the Gothic seeks to
redress the monolithic vision of American Gothic by analyzing the
various sectional or regional attempts to Gothicize what is most
claustrophobic or peculiar about local history. Since women writers
were often relegated to inferior status, it is especially
compelling to look at women from the Gothic perspective. The
regionalist Gothic develops along the line of difference and not
unity-thus emphasizing regional peculiarities or a sense of
superiority in terms of regional history, natural landscapes,
immigrant customs, folk tales, or idiosyncratic ways. The essays
study the uncanny or the haunting quality of "the commonplace," as
Hawthorne would have it in his introduction to The House of the
Seven Gables, in regionalist Gothic fiction by a wide range of
women writers between ca. 1850 and 1930. This collection seeks to
examine how/if the regionalist perspective is small, limited, and
stultifying and leads to Gothic moments, or whether the
intersection between local and national leads to a clash that is
jarring and Gothic in nature.
American Women's Regionalist Fiction: Mapping the Gothic seeks to
redress the monolithic vision of American Gothic by analyzing the
various sectional or regional attempts to Gothicize what is most
claustrophobic or peculiar about local history. Since women writers
were often relegated to inferior status, it is especially
compelling to look at women from the Gothic perspective. The
regionalist Gothic develops along the line of difference and not
unity-thus emphasizing regional peculiarities or a sense of
superiority in terms of regional history, natural landscapes,
immigrant customs, folk tales, or idiosyncratic ways. The essays
study the uncanny or the haunting quality of "the commonplace," as
Hawthorne would have it in his introduction to The House of the
Seven Gables, in regionalist Gothic fiction by a wide range of
women writers between ca. 1850 and 1930. This collection seeks to
examine how/if the regionalist perspective is small, limited, and
stultifying and leads to Gothic moments, or whether the
intersection between local and national leads to a clash that is
jarring and Gothic in nature.
From Jane Austen to contemporary fanfiction and adaptations,
literary portrayals of the child and imaginings of childhood are
particularly telling indicators of cultural values and when they
shift. Inspired by the responsive reading practices of L.M.
Montgomery herself, those demonstrated by her characters, and those
of her diverse readership, Children and Childhoods in L.M.
Montgomery works with concepts of confluence, based on organic,
non-linear readings of texts across time and space. Such readings
reconsider views of childhood and children by challenging power
hierarchies and inequities found in approaches that privilege more
linear readings of literary influence. While acknowledging
differences between childhood and adulthood, contributors emphasize
kinship between child and adult as well as between past and present
selves and use both scholarly approaches and creative reimagining
to explore how the boundaries between different stages of life are
blurred in Montgomery's writing. Children and Childhoods in L.M.
Montgomery addresses Montgomery's challenges to prescribed
assumptions about childhood while positioning her novels as
essential texts in twenty-first-century literary, childhood, and
youth studies. Contributors include Yoshiko Akamatsu (Notre Dame
Seishin University), Balaka Basu (UNC Charlotte), Rita Bode (Trent
University), Holly Cinnamon, Lesley D. Clement, Vappu Kannas, Heidi
Lawrence (University of Glasgow), Kit Pearson, Rosalee Peppard
Lockyer, E. Holly Pike, Laura Robinson (Acadia University), Kate
Scarth (UPEI), Margaret Steffler (Trent University), William
Thompson (MacEwan University), Bonnie Tulloch (UBC), Asa Warnqvist
(Swedish Institute for Children's Books)
Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942) and Anne of Green Gables will
always be associated with Prince Edward Island, Montgomery's
childhood home and the setting of her most famous novels. Yet,
after marrying Rev. Ewan Macdonald in 1911, she lived in Ontario
for three decades. There she became a mother of two sons, fulfilled
the duties of a minister's wife, advocated for copyright protection
and recognition of Canadian literature, wrote prolifically, and
reached a global readership that has never waned. Engaging with
discussions on both her life and her fiction, L.M. Montgomery's
Rainbow Valleys explores the joys, sorrows, and literature that
emerged from her transformative years in Ontario. While this time
brought Montgomery much pleasure and acclaim, it was also
challenged and complicated by a sense of displacement and the need
to self-fashion and self-dramatize as she struggled to align her
private self with her public persona. Written by scholars from
various fields and including a contribution by Montgomery's
granddaughter, this volume covers topics such as war, religion,
women's lives, friendships, loss, and grief, focusing on a range of
related themes to explore Montgomery's varied states of mind. An
in-depth study of one of Canada's most internationally acclaimed
authors, L.M. Montgomery's Rainbow Valleys shows how she recreated
herself as an Ontario writer and adapted to the rapidly changing
world of the twentieth century. Contributors include Elizabeth
Waterston (Guelph), Mary Beth Cavert (Independent), Margaret
Steffler (Trent), Laura M. Robinson (Royal Military College),
Caroline E. Jones (Austin Community College), William V. Thompson
(Grant MacEwan University), Melanie J. Fishbane (Humber College),
Katherine Cameron (Concordia University College), Emily Woster
(Minnesota-Duluth), Natalie Forest (York), E. Holly Pike
(Memorial-Grenfell), Linda Rodenburg (Lakehead-Orillia), Kate
Sutherland (York), Lesley D. Clement (Lakehead-Orillia), Kate
Macdonald Butler (Heirs of L.M. Montgomery Inc.).
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