{"product_id":"children-and-childhoods-in-l-m-montgomery","title":"Children and Childhoods in L.M. Montgomery","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom 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. \u003cbr\u003e\nInspired by the responsive reading practices of L.M. Montgomery herself, those demonstrated by her characters, and those of her diverse readership, \u003ci\u003eChildren and Childhoods in L.M. Montgomery\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChildren and Childhoods in L.M. Montgomery\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e\nContributors 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)\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Rita Bode","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43576086659254,"sku":"9780228013891","price":31.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9780228013891_31defa15-4709-4ede-b370-416e380b78db.jpg?v=1726253433","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/children-and-childhoods-in-l-m-montgomery","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}