L.M. Montgomery and Interior/Exterior Landscapes

Sixth Biennial International Conference, 24-27 June 2004

You are invited to join scholars and enthusiasts from around the world for four days of fascinating discussions led by over 40 presenters on topics that include the re-creation of a lost landscape, research into the imagined landscape, the domestication of Montgomery's heroines, the reconfiguration of women's same-sex relationships, use of personal space, the creation of false memories, connections between language and landscape, landscape and courtship, and even the use of landscape in depicting the horrors of the First World War. Landscapes may capture or suggest a place, a memory, a feeling, a cultural marker, or even a rhythm. We will examine why L.M. Montgomery has an international reputation for the (re)creation of Prince Edward Island and Ontario landscapes in her fiction and poetry, and also in her diaries and letters.

Keynote presentations will discuss the power of Montgomery's descriptions and will theorize her creation of interior and exterior space.

Thursday Keynote: "Transcending Time and Space — The Allure of Montgomery's Landscapes," Rachna Gilmore, Governor General's Award-winning author of fifteen books from Ottawa, Ontario.

Friday Keynote: "Landscape as Palimpsest Pentimento, Epiphany: Lucy Maud Montgomery's Interiorisation of the Exterior, Exteriorisation of the Interior," Rosemary Ross Johnston, Director of the Centre for Research and Education in the Arts at the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia.

For more information on the conference and a registration form, please visit: http://www.lmmontgomery.ca.

This page last updated 1 February 2004.