Storm and Dissonance
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Jean Mitchell is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Island Studies at the University of Prince Edward Island where she has recently been the Scholar-in-Residence at the Lucy Maud Montgomery Institute (LMMI) in Prince Edward Island, Canada.

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“In the past quarter century, L. M. Montgomery has emerged as the most internationally influential Canadian writer of the first half of the 20th century . . . Feminism and cultural studies took a sledgehammer to the modernists and other critics who had trashed her books, deeming them suitable only for undiscriminating people (such as women and children). This coincided with the publication, starting in 1985, of Montgomery’s own personal journals, kept from 1889 to 1942. They revealed an incredibly complex and well-read woman, one as witty as she was tortured. . . . In this remarkable collection of essays, scholars delve into ‘the surprising darkness, the unexpected violence, . . .’ that haunt the margins of Montgomery’s work before the reader gets to her ‘happy endings.’”Mary Henley Rubio, Professor Emeritus, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada.“Storm and Dissonance is a collection of inter-related essays that explore how and why Montgomery’s ‘gentle landscapes and optimistic stories contain undercurrents of anger, malice, relentless gossip, obsession, and violence.’ Brilliantly edited and introduced by Island-born Anthropologist Jean Mitchell, the essays enrich our understanding of Montgomery’s complex ways of coding experiences and perceptions. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in Montgomery’s artistry and in her creation of cultural images that resonate more than one hundred years later.”Elizabeth Rollins Epperly, author of Through Lover’s Lane: L. M. Montgomery’s Photography and Visual Imagination (2007)."Mitchell has brought together many prominent Montgomery scholars, impressive in the range of their critical methods and perspectives, for a roundtable discussion that provides constant surprises, including penetrating essays by Carole Gerson, Margaret Doody, and Benjamin Lefebvre, to name only a few ... Both students and seasoned Montgomery scholars will delight in the thought-provoking research perspectives that these authors undertake."Sean Somers, Canadian Literature No. 202, Autumn 2009

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