Reassessments of L.M. Montgomery

Edited by Benjamin Lefebvre

Canadian Children’s Literature / Littérature canadienne pour la jeunesse 113-114 (Spring-Summer 2004)

Contents

Editorial / Présentation

Assessments and Reassessments / Benjamin Lefebvre (6-13)

Méthodes d’évaluation / Benjamin Lefebvre (14-16)

Articles

Addicted to Reading: L.M. Montgomery and the Value of Reading / Clarence Karr (17-33)

“That Unholy Tendency to Laughter”: L.M. Montgomery’s Iconoclastic Affirmation of Faith in Anne of Green Gables / Monika B. Hilder (34-55)

“The Golden Road of Youth”: L.M. Montgomery and British Children’s Literature / Jennifer H. Litster (56-72)

The Nostalgic Appeal of a Popular Place: Female Fans Interpreting Road to Avonlea / Patsy Kotsopoulos (73-97)

“I Knew I Would ‘Arrive’ Some Day”: L.M. Montgomery and the Strategies of Literary Celebrity / Lorraine York (98-116)

Appendix: Bibliography of Materials Published on L.M. Montgomery in Canadian Children’s Literature 1975-2004 (117-20)

Reviews / Comptes rendus

Guiding Canadian Readers of Canadian Children’s Books (Review of A Guide to Canadian Children’s Books in English, by Deirdre Baker and Ken Setterington) / Roderick McGillis (121-29)

Windows and Words: A Description of a Scene (Review of Windows and Words: A Look at Canadian Children’s Literature in English, edited by Aïda Hudson and Susan-Ann Cooper) / E. Holly Pike (129-31)

Speaking of the Speechless: Babies in Canadian Literature (Review of Making Babies: Infants in Canadian Fiction, by Sandra Sabatini) / Janice Fiamengo (131-33)

English-Canadian Women and Literary Culture Reconsidered (Review of Literary Culture and Female Authorship in Canada 1760-2000, by Faye Hammill) / Cecily Devereux (133-35)

Plus Jonathan F. Vance’s review of ten historical novels for younger readers and Perry Nodelman’s review of forty picture books.

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