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L.M. Montgomery’s writings are replete with enchanting yet subtle and fluid depictions of nature that convey her intense appreciation for the natural world. At a time of ecological crises, intensifying environmental anxiety, and burgeoning eco-critical perspectives, L.M. Montgomery and the Matter of Nature(s) repositions the Canadian author’s relationship to nature in terms of current environmental criticism across several disciplines, introducing a fresh approach to her life and work. Drawing on a wide range of Montgomery’s novels as well as her journals, this collection suggests that socio-ecological relationships encompass ideas of reciprocity, affiliation, autonomy, and the capacity for transformation in both the human and more-than-human worlds, and that these ideas are integral to Montgomery’s vision and her literary legacy. Framed by the twin themes of materiality and interrelationships, essays by scholars of literature, law, animal studies, anthropology, and ecology examine place, embodiment, and difference in Montgomery’s works and embrace the multiplicities embedded in the concept of nature. Through innovative critical approaches, L.M. Montgomery and the Matter of Nature(s) opens up conversations about humans’ interactions with nature and the material environment.L.M. Montgomery’s writings are replete with enchanting yet subtle and fluid depictions of nature that convey her intense appreciation for the natural world. At a time of ecological crises, intensifying environmental anxiety, and burgeoning eco-critical perspectives, L.M. Montgomery and the Matter of Nature(s) repositions the Canadian author’s relationship to nature in terms of current environmental criticism across several disciplines, introducing a fresh approach to her life and work. Drawing on a wide range of Montgomery’s novels as well as her journals, this collection suggests that socio-ecological relationships encompass ideas of reciprocity, affiliation, autonomy, and the capacity for transformation in both the human and more-than-human worlds, and that these ideas are integral to Montgomery’s vision and her literary legacy. Framed by the twin themes of materiality and interrelationships, essays by scholars of literature, law, animal studies, anthropology, and ecology examine place, embodiment, and difference in Montgomery’s works and embrace the multiplicities embedded in the concept of nature. Through innovative critical approaches, L.M. Montgomery and the Matter of Nature(s) opens up conversations about humans’ interactions with nature and the material environment.

Retranslations of works belonging to the literary canon can be controversial, especially when the translator changes the title, character and place names already well‑- established in the target culture. This was the case with Anna Bańkowska’s Anne z Zielonych Szczytów, a 2022 rendition of Lucy Maud Montgomery’s novel Anne of Green Gables. This paper examines a selection of online comments referring to Anna Bańkowska’s translation choices in order to identify the categories of valuation to which commentators referred. As it turned out, the positive valuation of the new translation most often involved references to cognitive, perfectionist and ethical categories, while the negative valuation was usually performed — among others — in social and pragmatic categories. A significant factor influencing valuation was the fact that Bańkowska’s translation was interpretatively intertwined with the earlier translations. In view of the content richness of the internet comments, revealing a critical reception of cultural texts by their authors, they can be rightly considered a form of translation criticism.

In Science and Health (1875), Christian Science founder Mary Baker Eddy (1821–1910) discouraged followers from reading “nauseous fiction,” that is, “[n]ovels, remarkable only for their exaggerated pictures, impossible ideals, and specimens of depravity” (195). This essay examines Eddy’s views on fiction alongside Christian Science novels written around 1900 by followers such as Clara Louise Burnham, Mrs. Georgie Sheldon, and Katherine Yates. Eddy tentatively supported these authors’ literary productions but refused to grant them the endorsement of The Christian Science Publishing Society. Had Eddy endorsed their fictions, she might have attracted more followers and strengthened her religion’s place in literary history.

There is a long history of utilising various facets of the arts in peace activism. Writing in Canada at the fin de siecle, author L.M. Montgomery's work contains numerous examples of her gender activism with her creation of peaceful societies for her female protagonists. As this was a time when women were not free to openly express dissatisfaction with their role in society, the arts were a method by which they could subtly share their views. While several authors consider Montgomery's subversive views on gender, few authors involve arts practice as part of their research. This paper will investigate Montgomery's building of strong, supportive female communities in her Anne series of novels. I will continue the culture of utilising creative arts to explore these gender dynamics by using an arts-based methodology to identify themes in Montgomery's work, resulting in a new musical composition that articulates the gender struggle. This work exemplifies how responding to gender dynamics through art continues, well beyond Montgomery's era, to provide a peaceful form of gender-based activism.

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L. M. Montgomery's First World War novel, Rilla of Ingleside (1921), is a text preoccupied with time: with characters' growth through time, with their sense of temporality and duration, and with their attempts to organize their experience of time in narrative form, via diaries, letters, and oral narratives. Montgomery charts the experience of modernity through the industrial warfare of the Great War and through modern interventions into the pastoral Prince Edward Island community of Glen St. Mary. Susan's faith in \"God's time\" belies the history of the development of Coordinated Universal Time, a system that is implicated in nineteenth-century imperialism, enmeshed as it is with \"national ambitions, war, industry, science, and conquest\" (Galison 38). However, Susan's resistance to Daylight Saving Time reminds us that if time is political, it is also experienced as profoundly personal. Wondering whether \"those of us who have lived half our lives in the old world will ever feel wholly at home in the new\" (199), Anne echoes Montgomery's own reflection in a journal entry from June 17, 1916 that the \"old world is passed away forever,\" and her \"fear that those . . . who have lived half our [life] span\" in the old world \"will never feel wholly at home in the new\" (CJ 1911-17 231). Anne opens up speculative space in which she imagines herself and her contemporaries as chronotopic castaways, straddling two irreconcilable worlds. Her interlocutors in this scene are the older generation of Ingleside-Gilbert, Susan, and Gertrude Oliver-and their regular visitor, Susan's dour Cousin Sophia; none of the younger generation are present to witness the conversation. Indeed, the youthful family members who come of age during the war could be imagined, in Anne's construction, as immune to the trauma of the adults who feel their expulsion from the charmed \"pastures and still waters\" (Montgomery, CJ1918-21 128) of the old days. E. Holly Pike notes that the Anne series is \"recalled\" (81) throughout Rilla of Ingleside, as characters remember and reflect upon their pasts, and as plot details recall to readers' minds episodes from earlier books in the series. For example, Anne recalls incidents from her youthful days at Green Gables, such as when she broke her ankle after Josie Pye \"dared [her]\" to walk the ridge-pole of the Barrys' kitchen roof (Rilla 11) and when she disastrously dyed her hair green (198).