9 Transformative Girlhood and Twenty-First-Century Girldom in L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Abbreviations Used in Notes xi
5. Introduction 3
6. Conversing with the Past: Vulnerability, Resistance, and Resilience
7. Emily of New Moon and Fanny of Mansfield Park: Childhood at Home in Jane Austen and L.M. Montgomery 27
8. L.M. Montgomery's Precocious Children: Resisting Adult Narratives of Death, Dying, and the Afterlife 47
9. Vulnerable Situations: Boys and Boyhood in the Emily Books 68
10. Conversing with the Present: Fantasy, the Ideal, and the Real
11. The Performance of the Beautiful Dream Boy in Novels by L.M. Montgomery and Frances Hodgson Burnett 93
12. Lost Boys and Lost Girls: The Kindred Offspring of J.M. Barrie and L.M. Montgomery 114
13. Magic for Marigold, Childhood, and Fiction 136
14. Continuing Literary Conversations: Transformative Relationships and Spaces
15. Loving, Larking, and Lying: Free-Spirited Children and Disciplinary Adults in the Works of L.M. Montgomery and Astrid Lindgren 159
16. Absent Fathers: Conversations between L.M. Montgomery and Madeleine L’Engle 182
17. Transformative Girlhood and Twenty-First-Century Girldom in L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables 201
18. Continuing Transmediated Conversations: Anime, Fanfiction, and Television Adaptations
19. The Problems and Possibilities Inherent in Adaptation: Emily of New Moon and Emily, Girl of the Wind 223
20. Continuing Stories: L.M. Montgomery and Fanfiction in the Digital Era 242
21. Anne with an Edge: CBC-Netflix's Rereading of Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables 257
22. Afterwords
23. Preface to the Afterwords 277
24. Emily Kent – The Afterlife of Emily of New Moon 284
25. Anne's Nature 290
26. My Maud by Katie Maurice 295
27. Dear Maud 299
28. Bibliography 303
29. Contributors 329
30. Index 333