Gammel, Irene, and Benjamin Lefebvre, eds. Anne’s World: A New Century of Anne of Green Gables. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010.
Book title: Anne’s World: A New Century of Anne of Green Gables
Editors: Gammel, Irene; Lefebvre, Benjamin
Type: Collection of essays
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Date: 2010
ISBN: 978-1442642027 (cloth), 978-1442611061 (paper)
Synopsis
The recent 100-year anniversary of the first publication of L.M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables has inspired renewed interest in one of Canada’s most beloved fictional icons. The international appeal of the red-haired orphan has not diminished over the past century, and the cultural meaning of her story continues to grow and change. The original essays in Anne’s World offer fresh and timely approaches to issues of culture, identity, health, and globalization as they apply to Montgomery’s famous character and to today’s readers.
In conversation with each other and with the work of previous experts, the contributors to Anne’s World discuss topics as diverse as Anne in fashion, the global industry surrounding Anne, the novel’s use as a tool to counteract depression, and the possibility that Anne suffers from Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. Anne in translation and its adaptation for film and television are also considered. By establishing new ways to examine one of popular culture’s favourite characters, the essays of Anne’s World demonstrate the timeless and ongoing appeal of L.M. Montgomery’s writing.
Contents
Acknowledgments (ix–xi)
Introduction: Reconsidering Anne’s World / Irene Gammel (3–16) [Full entry]
1. Seven Milestones: How Anne of Green Gables Became a Canadian Icon / Carole Gerson (17–34) [Full entry]
2. “Matthew Insists on Puffed Sleeves”: Ambivalence towards Fashion in Anne of Green Gables / Alison Matthews David and Kimberly Wahl (35–49) [Full entry]
3. “I’ll Never Be Angelically Good”: Feminist Narrative Ethics in Anne of Green Gables / Mary Jeanette Moran (50–64) [Full entry]
4. “Too Heedless and Impulsive”: Re-reading Anne of Green Gables through a Clinical Approach / Helen Hoy (65–81) [Full entry]
5. Reading to Heal: Anne of Green Gables as Bibliotherapy / Irene Gammel (82–99) [Full entry]
6. Reading with Blitheness: Anne of Green Gables in Toronto Public Library’s Children’s Collections / Leslie McGrath (100–16) [Full entry]
7. Learning with Anne: Early Childhood Education Looks at New Media for Young Girls / Jason Nolan (117–33) [Full entry]
8. On the Road from Bright River: Shifting Social Space in Anne of Green Gables / Alexander MacLeod (134–49) [Full entry]
9. Anne in a “Globalized” World: Nation, Nostalgia, and Postcolonial Perspectives of Home / Margaret Steffler (150–65) [Full entry]
10. An Enchanting Girl: International Portraits of Anne’s Cultural Transfer / Irene Gammel with Andrew O’Malley, Huifeng Hu, and Ranbir K. Banwait (166–91) [Full entry]
11. What’s in a Name? Towards a Theory of the Anne Brand / Benjamin Lefebvre (192–211) [Full entry]
Afterword: Mediating Anne / Richard Cavell (212–16) [Full entry]
Bibliography (217–42)
Contributors (243–6)
Index (247–63)