I cast 'moral' and 'Sunday School' ideals to the winds and made my 'Anne' a real human girl.- - L. M. Montgomery
In 2008, Anne fans everywhere celebrated the 100th birthday of Lucy Maud Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables. Though Anne has always been recognized as a Canadian classic, her story is loved the world over.
In 100 Years of Anne with an -e-: The Centennial Study of Anne of Green Gables, Holly Blackford has brought together an international community of scholars who situate L. M. Montgomery's novel in its original historical and literary context, discuss its timeless...
I cast 'moral' and 'Sunday School' ideals to the winds and made my 'Anne' a real human girl.- - L. M. Montgomery
Blackford traces figurations of Persephone, Demeter, and Hades throughout girls' literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She illuminates developmental patterns and anxieties in E. T. A. Hoffmann's Nutcracker and Mouse King, Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, J. M. Barrie's Peter and Wendy, Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden, E. B. White's Charlotte's Web, J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Stephenie Meyer's Twilight, and Neil Gaiman's Coraline. The story of the young goddess's separation from her mother and...
Blackford traces figurations of Persephone, Demeter, and Hades throughout girls' literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She illuminates...
In this book, Blackford historicizes the appeal of the Persephone myth in the nineteenth century and traces figurations of Persephone, Demeter, and Hades throughout girls literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She illuminates developmental patterns and anxieties in E. T. A. Hoffmann s Nutcracker and Mouse King, Louisa May Alcott s Little Women, Emily Bronte s Wuthering Heights, J. M. Barrie s Peter and Wendy, Frances Hodgson Burnett s The Secret Garden, E. B. White s Charlotte s Web, J. K. Rowling s Harry Potter and...
In this book, Blackford historicizes the appeal of the Persephone myth in the nineteenth century and traces figurations of Persephone, Demeter, and...
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize winning novel of Depression-era Alabama, means many different things to many different people. Holly Blackford invites the reader to view Lee's novel in parallel with works by other iconic American writers. In the process, she locates the book amid contesting literary traditions while exploring the rich ambiguities that define its characters.
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize winning novel of Depression-era Alabama, means many different things to many different people. Holl...
This volume situates My Antonia as a novel that stands the test of time by including in its pages an extraordinarily wide range of historical, cultural, literary, psychological, thematic, perceptual, and stylistic issues. The volume provides an analysis and assessment of complexities in the novel as well as its reception and legacy.
This volume situates My Antonia as a novel that stands the test of time by including in its pages an extraordinarily wide range of historical, cultura...
