Author Archives: Benjamin
New Collection on Textual Transformations in Children’s Literature
I’m pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of my collection of essays Textual Transformations in Children’s Literature: Adaptations, Translations, Reconsiderations, which will be published in the Children’s Literature and Culture series by Routledge in Fall 2012. This book offers new … Continue reading
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Remembrance Day Blogs: Rilla and Walter
In honour of Remembrance Day, two recent blog entries have appeared discussing L.M. Montgomery’s depiction of the Great War in Rilla of Ingleside and The Blythes Are Quoted. First, Christine Chettle discusses Walter Blythe’s poems “The Piper” and “The Aftermath” … Continue reading
Rilla in Paperback!
I received my copies this week of the paperback edition of L.M. Montgomery’s Rilla of Ingleside, which I edited jointly with Andrea McKenzie and which was published in hardcover last October. The official street date is next Tuesday, 1 November … Continue reading
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Anne of Prince Edward Island
In a journal entry dated March 1910, Montgomery mentioned that she had recently received a copy of the Swedish translation of Anne of Green Gables, which she found “interesting as a curiosity,” not because of the translated text but because … Continue reading
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Rilla of Ingleside in Paperback!
I’m pleased to announce that the unabridged and fully annotated edition of Rilla of Ingleside, edited by Benjamin Lefebvre and Andrea McKenzie, will be published in paperback by Penguin Canada in November 2011! Pre-order your copy today! Rilla of Ingleside—originally … Continue reading
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CFP: Canadian Postwar Literatures, the 1940s and Beyond
Contributors are sought for a critical essay collection on Canadian postwar literatures for submission to an internationally distributed British academic press in 2012. Besides war itself the book will address themes relevant to postwar social and cultural conditions. A key … Continue reading
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CFP: Children’s Material Cultures
On Friday October 21, 2011, from 1:00 to 4:30 p.m., the Association for Research in Cultures of Young People (ARCYP) and the Children’s Studies Program at York University will co-present a symposium on new research in Children’s Material Cultures. The … Continue reading
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CFP: Children’s Literature and Imaginative Geography: Past, Present, and Future
In October 2012, the Department of English at the University of Ottawa will host a Symposium on “Children’s Literature and Imaginative Geography: Past, Present, and Future.” For Tolkien, the Realm of Faerie defined an imaginative place. That sense of place … Continue reading
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Jeunesse 3.1 Now Available
The Summer 2011 issue of Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures (Volume 3, number 1), published by the Centre for Research in Young People’s Texts and Cultures at the University of Winnipeg, is now available. It contains an editorial by Mavis … Continue reading
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CFP: Literary Slipstreams (Children’s Literature Association conference)
Literary Slipstreams (14–16 June 2012), Simmons College, Boston, Massachusetts The 39th Annual Children’s Literature Association Conference will consider a multiplicity of interpretations of “Literary Slipstreams,” a theme thriving in the present but involved with waking the past. As we enter … Continue reading
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