The L.M. Montgomery Reader: Volume Three: A Legacy in Review edited by Benjamin Lefebvre was published by University of Toronto Press in January 2015. This book is a collection of over 400 newspaper reviews and advertisements for L.M. Montgomery's books. In his introduction, Benjamin Lefebvre states, "This third volume, subtitled A Legacy in Review, looks at the coverage Montgomery’s books have received in these reviews in the context of ads, notices, and bestseller lists appearing in print media dedicated to supporting the book industry."
Here is the description of the volume from University of Toronto Press:
Now available in paperback, The L.M. Montgomery Reader assembles rediscovered primary material on one of Canada’s most enduringly popular authors, spanning the entirety of her high-profile career and the years since her death.
Volume Three: A Legacy in Review examines a long overlooked portion of Montgomery’s critical reception: reviews of her books. Although Montgomery downplayed the impact that reviews had on her writing career, claiming to be amused and tolerant of reviewers’ contradictory opinions about her work, she nevertheless cared enough to keep a large percentage of them in scrapbooks as an archive of her career. This volume presents more than four hundred reviews from eight countries that raise questions about and offer reflections on gender, genre, setting, character, audience, and nationalism, much of which anticipated the scholarship that has thrived in the last four decades.
Each volume in The L.M. Montgomery Reader is accompanied by an extensive introduction and detailed commentary by leading Montgomery scholar Benjamin Lefebvre that traces the interplay between the author and the critic, as well as between the private and the public Montgomery.
The L.M. Montgomery Reader traces the author’s enduring legacy as a Canadian icon and as a literary celebrity both during and beyond her lifetime.
"Lefebvre has thoroughly mined earlier scholars’ bibliographies and online newspaper archives to find reviews in periodicals from eight different countries, including the Bookman (London), the Globe (Toronto) and Vogue (New York). . . . Collectively, these reviews . . . represent a superb barometer of [Montgomery’s] fluctuating cultural value as a writer."
—Irene Gammel
"Benjamin Lefebvre amasses a century-long, world-wide array of responses to L.M. Montgomery’s work. Readers will be surprised and amused by his revelation of wild swings in taste and bias among critics of the ever-popular Canadian writer."
—Elizabeth Waterston, Department of English, University of Guelph
The book includes the following contents:
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction: A Legacy in Review
BENJAMIN LEFEBVRE
A Note on the Text
1 Anne of Green Gables (1908)
2 Anne of Avonlea (1909)
3 Kilmeny of the Orchard (1910)
4 The Story Girl (1911)
5 Chronicles of Avonlea (1912)
6 The Golden Road (1913)
7 Anne of the Island (1915)
8 The Watchman and Other Poems (1916)
9 Anne’s House of Dreams (1917)
10 Rainbow Valley (1919)
11 Further Chronicles of Avonlea (1920)
12 Rilla of Ingleside (1921)
13 Emily of New Moon (1923)
14 Emily Climbs (1925)
15 The Blue Castle (1926)
16 Emily’s Quest (1927)
17 Magic for Marigold (1929)
18 A Tangled Web / Aunt Becky Began It (1931)
19 Pat of Silver Bush (1933)
20 Courageous Women (1934)
WITH MARIAN KEITH AND MABEL BURNS MCKINLEY
21 Mistress Pat: A Novel of Silver Bush (1935)
22 Anne of Windy Poplars / Anne of Windy Willows (1936)
23 Jane of Lantern Hill (1937)
24 Anne of Ingleside (1939)
Epilogue: Posthumous Titles, 1960–2013
BENJAMIN LEFEBVRE
Sources
Bibliography
Index
ISBN: 9781442644939
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