Elizabeth Rollins Epperly’s new book Through Lover’s Lane: L.M. Montgomery’s Photography and Visual Imagination, has been released by University of Toronto Press! The contents are as follows:
Acknowledgments (ix–xi)
Permissions (xiii)
Abbreviations (xv)
Introduction: Seeing Patterns (3–10)
1. Montgomery’s Visual Imagination (11–38)
2. Montgomery’s Photography (39–62)
3. Picturing a Life: Selected Photographs (63–85)
4. Picturing Home: Image as Threshold (86–102)
5. Anne’s Green Arches (103–24)
6. Emily’s “Memory Pictures” (125–44)
7. “My Castle in Spain”: The Blue Castle and the Architecture of Images (145–64)
8. Afterimage: Around the “Bend in the Road” (165–78)
Appendix: “Cynthia’s” 1902 Article on Photography (179–82)
Notes (183–91)
Works Cited (193–201)
Illustration Credits (203)
Index (205–17)
The back cover also includes the following comments:
“No one is better suited than Elizabeth Epperly to undertake a study of L.M. Montgomery’s photographs. Through Lover’s Lane represents the first solid study of Montgomery’s fiction in relation to both her autobiographical writing and photographs. It is a readily comprehensible study and the images are gorgeous.” —Cecily Devereux, Department of English, University of Alberta
“Elizabeth Epperly has written an effective analysis of L.M. Montgomery’s visual imagination and ‘way of seeing’—a central and surprisingly little-studied aspect of this popular author’s verbal (and visual) art. Through Lover’s Lane is a well-written, engaging work that also makes available a beautiful series of Montgomery’s photographs.” —Janice Fiamengo, Department of English, University of Ottawa