Storm and Dissonance: L.M. Montgomery and Conflict (2008)
Edited by Jean Mitchell
Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008
Contents
List of Images and Figures (xi-xii)
Acknowledgements (xii-xiv)
List of Abbreviations (xv)
Introduction: Storm and Dissonance: L.M. Montgomery and Conflict / Jean Mitchell (1-21)
Part I: Narrating Self and Other
L.M. Montgomery: The Darker Side / Margaret Doody (25-49)
L.M. Montgomery and the Anguish of Mother Loss / Rita Bode (50-66)
L.M. Montgomery and the Conflictedness of a Woman Writer / Carole Gerson (67-80)
Part II: A World of Conflict and Private Sorrows
Women at War: L.M. Montgomery, the Great War, and Canadian Cultural Memory / Andrea McKenzie (83-108)
“That Abominable War”: The Blythes Are Quoted and Thoughts on L.M. Montgomery’s Late Style / Benjamin Lefebvre (109-130)
Opposing Pacifism: L.M. Montgomery and the Trouble with Ephraim Weber / Paul Tiessen (131-141)
Reflections of the Great Depression in L.M. Montgomery’s Life and Her Pat Books / Heidi MacDonald (142-158)
Part 3: Performing Difference(s)
“Tempest in a Teapot”: Domestic Service and Class Conflict in L.M. Montgomery’s Journals and Fiction / E. Holly Pike (161-177)
Performing Motherhood: L.M. Montgomery’s Display of Maternal Dissonance / Margaret Steffler (178-193)
Montgomery’s “Imp”: Conflicting Representations of Illness in L.M. Montgomery’s The Blue Castle / Kylee-Anne Hingston (194-208)
The Fresh-Air Controversy, Health, and Art in L.M. Montgomery’s Emily Novels / Susan Meyer (209-220)
Sustainable Dissonance: Becoming-Anne through L.M. Montgomery’s and Kevin Sullivan’s Anne of Green Gables / Pamela Rossi-Keen (221-237)
Love and Controversy for Over Eighty Years: Anne, Emily, and Finnish Women: An Interview / Suvi Ahola and Satu Koskimies (238-244)
Part IV: Avoiding, Mediating, and Resolving Conflicts
Out the Open Window: Avoidance as Conflict Resolution in L.M. Montgomery’s Short Fiction / Trinna S. Frever (247-262)
“You d—d idiot!” What L.M. Montgomery’s Silent Heroines Really Want to Say / Sarah Clair Atkinson (263-277)
The Conflicted Worlds Behind the Letters of L.M. Montgomery and Ephraim Weber / Hildi Froese Tiessen (278-294)
“Even a Successful Lawsuit Will be a Worry”: Law and Community Relations in L.M. Montgomery’s Life and Work / Kate Sutherland (295-307)
Part V: Troubling Translations and Dissonant Re-readings
“‘Outrageously Sexual’ Anne”: The Media and Montgomery / Laura Robinson (311-327)
Conflicting Images: Anne of Green Gables in Germany / Martina Seifert (328-343)
Hanako Muraoka’s Famous and Truncated Translation of Anne of Green Gables: Some Lingering Questions / Danièle Allard (344-362)
“Bound for Quebec” or “Journey’s End”? Conflicting Stories About the Montgomery Family’s Arrival in Prince Edward Island / Carolyn Strom Collins (363-372)
How Green is Green Gables?: An Ecofeminist Perspective on L.M. Montgomery / Nancy Holmes (373-390)
Epilogue
What Occurs: Storm, Dissonance, and Conflict in L.M. Montgomery’s Life and Writing / Jane Ledwell (391-393)
Contributors (394-398)
Index (399-415)
