Such a Simple Little Tale: Critical Responses to L.M. Montgomery’s “Anne of Green Gables” (1992)
Edited by Mavis Reimer
Metuchen, NJ: Children’s Literature Association and Scarecrow Press, 1992.
Contents
Acknowledgements (v-vi)
Introduction. The Anne-Girl and the Anne Book / Mavis Reimer (1-10)
“Queer Children”: L.M. Montgomery’s Heroines / Muriel A. Whitaker (11-22)
The Decline of Anne: Matron vs. Child / Gillian Thomas (23-28)
Progressive Utopia: Or, How to Grow Up Without Growing Up / Perry Nodelman (29-38)
Calling Back the Ghost of the Old-Time Heroine: Duncan, Montgomery, Atwood, Laurence, and Munro / Catherine Ross (39-55)
The Uses of Setting in Anne of Green Gables / Marilyn Solt (57-63)
Anne of Green Gables: The Architect of Adolescence / Mary Rubio (65-82)
L.M. Montgomery’s Portraits of the Artist: Realism, Idealism, and the Domestic Imagination / T.D. MacLulich (83-100)
“Kindred Spirits” All: Green Gables Revisited / Carol Gay (101-108)
Sexism Down on the Farm?: Anne of Green Gables / Janet Weiss-Townsend (109-117)
Community and the Individual in Anne of Green Gables: The Meaning of Belonging / Susan Drain (119-130)
Journeys of the Mother in the World of Green Gables / Nancy Huse (131-138)
The Female Bildungsroman in Nineteenth-Century America: Parameters of a Vision / Eve Kornfeld and Susan Jackson (139-152)
Anne of Green Gables: A Girl’s Reading / Temma F. Berg (153-164)
Suggestions for Further Reading: A Guide to the Research and Criticism on Anne of Green Gables / (165-190)
Contributors (191-193)
Index (195-201)
Reviews
Blenkhorn, Deborah. “Roots of Feminism?” Review of Purple Springs, by Nellie McClung; Countertraditions in the Bible: A Feminist Approach, by Ilana Pardes; Such a Simple Little Tale: Critical Responses to L.M. Montgomery’s “Anne of Green Gables,” edited by Mavis Reimer. Canadian Literature 137 (Summer 1993): 77-78.
Phillips, Anne K. “The Anne-Girl and Her Critics.” Review of Such a Simple Little Tale: Critical Responses to L.M. Montgomery’s “Anne of Green Gables,” edited by Mavis Reimer. Children’s Literature 22 (1994): 192-95.
Tiessen, Paul. Review of Such a Simple Little Tale: Critical Responses to L.M. Montgomery’s “Anne of Green Gables,” edited by Mavis Reimer. English Studies in Canada 21, no. 3 (September 1995): 357-59.
