The Island Motif in the Fiction of L.M. Montgomery, Margaret Laurence, Margaret Atwood, and other Canadian Women Novelists
Author
Sheckels, Theodore F.
Publication Date
2003
Publisher
P. Lang
Place of Publication
New York
Physical Description
print
xvi, 206 p. ; 24 cm.
Collection
L.M. Montgomery Institute. Ryrie-Campbell Collection.
Donor
Donated by Donna Jane Campbell.
Contents
1. Introduction -- 2. Redemptive Retreats: L. M. Montgomery's "Anne Books"; L. M. Montgomery's Jane of Lantern Hill; Marian Engel's Bear -- 3. Holding Patterns: Margaret Laurence's The Diviners; Audrey Thomas's Intertidal Life -- 4. Most Puzzling Island of All: Margaret Atwood's Surfacing -- 5. Small-Town Traps: Margaret Laurence's A Jest of God; Alice Munro's Lives of Girls and Women -- 6. Trapped in Fantasy: L. M. Montgomery's "Pat Books"; L. M. Montgomery's Magic for Marigold -- 7. Dangerous Idylls: Gabrielle Roy's The Tin Flute; Margaret Atwood's Bodily Harm; Marie-Claire Blais's These Festive Nights -- 8. Once More to the Island.
Topic
Settings
Canadian fiction
Women authors
History and criticism
Islands in literature
Women and literature
History
