Description: From Jane Austen to contemporary fanfiction and adaptations, literary portrayals of the child and imaginings of childhood are indicators of cultural values and when they shift. Children and Childhoods in L.M. Montgomeryaddresses Montgomery's challenges to prescribed assumptions about childhood, and positions her novels as essential texts in twenty-first century literary, childhood, and youth studies.
Brief description: E. Holly Pike, former associate professor of English at Memorial University of Newfoundland, is co-editor, with Laura M. Robinson, of L.M. Montgomery and Gender.
Review Quotes: "This collection [is] valuable and [a rarity] in academic literary studies. It is a book both for scholars and for the "Maud Squad." Historical Studies in Education/Revue d'histoire de l'éducation