{"product_id":"storm-and-dissonance-jean-mitchell-9781847184337","title":"Storm and Dissonance: L. M. Montgomery and Conflict","description":"This collection of essays explores the darker side of L.M. Montgomery's fiction and life writing. An international best-selling novelist, Montgomery's many novels, particularly Anne of Green Gables, have enchanted readers for over a century. However, Montgomery's own disenchantment made evident with the posthumous publication of her private journals, ruptured the easy conflation of Montgomery as author and person. The tension between public enchantment and private discontent informs Montgomery's work and life. By exploring the more transgressive aspects of Montgomery's writing, these essays provide new insights into the complexity of her work and life. Montgomery's gentle landscapes and optimistic stories, as the authors suggest, often contain undercurrents of anger, malice, obsession, loss and violence. As one contributor, Margaret Doody, argues, destructiveness plays around the edges of all of her fiction. Essays explore the anguish of mother loss, her ambivalent depictions of the maternal, the experiences War and the Great Depression as well as a range of issues related to gender, class, nature and social and cultural change. Attention to the dissonance and conflict as these essays demonstrates, provides compelling and new space for theoretical readings of Montgomery's work.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jean Mitchell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1847184332\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781847184337\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cambridge Scholars Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/01\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 415\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.10h x 5.80w x 1.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2009 pg. 271","brand":"Jean Mitchell","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48486179930367,"sku":"9781847184337","price":67.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ec9a4af1-f156-4e8f-97b9-b0b4ce9cbc08.jpg?v=1778054203","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/storm-and-dissonance-jean-mitchell-9781847184337","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}