L.M. Montgomery and the Matter of Nature(s).
- Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, (c)2018.
- 1 online resource
Includes bibliographies and index.
Cover; L.M. Montgomery and the Matter of Nature(s); Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Permissions; Introduction: L.M. Montgomery and the Matter of Nature(s); PART ONE Nature's Places; 1 Fire, Fantasy, and Futurity: Queer Ecology Visits Silver Bush; 2 The Scotsman, the Scribe, and the Spyglass: Going Back with L.M. Montgomery to Prince Edward Island; 3 Romantic Novelist as Naturalist: John Foster and the Bird Woman; 4 L.M. Montgomery's "Indoors and Out": Imagining an Organic Architecture; PART TWO Nature's Embodiments. 5 Natural Bridge: L.M. Montgomery and the Architecture of Imaginative Landscapes6 L.M. Montgomery's Neurasthenia: Embodied Nature and the Matter of Nerves; 7 The Education of Emily: Tempering a Force of Nature through Lessons in Law; 8 The Spirit of Inquiry: Nature Study and the Sense of Wonder in L.M. Montgomery's Anne Books; PART THREE Nature's Otherness; 9 "No London street Arabs for me": The Unnatural Orphan in Anne of Green Gables; 10 Kindred Spirits: Kinship and the Nature of Nature in Anne's House of Dreams and The Blue Castle. 11 The Empathic Poetic Sensibility: Discerning and Embodying Nature's Secrets12 The Nature of the Beast: Pets and People in L.M. Montgomery's Fiction; Notes; Bibliography; Contributors; Index.
A critical study of L.M. Montgomery's relationship to the material world and the revealing interconnections between nature and culture.
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Montgomery, L. M. 1874-1942 --Criticism and interpretation.
Nature in literature. Human ecology in literature.