Edited by Mavis Reimer
Metuchen, NJ: Children’s Literature Association and Scarecrow Press, 1992 (Paperback edition: 2003)
Here is a compilation of the best critical essays on this enduring classic. Selections focus on the many perspectives from which Anne of Green Gables is viewed. Is it children’s literature, or does it fit a different area of literary scholarship? Each of the articles breaks new ground in the literary criticism of Montgomery’s book. Also included is a comprehensive bibliographic guide to the research and criticism of Anne, from the earliest reviews to the most recent essays.
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 (23–8)
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 (101–8)
Sexism Down on the Farm?: Anne of Green Gables / Janet Weiss-Townsend (109–17)
Community and the Individual in Anne of Green Gables: The Meaning of Belonging / Susan Drain (119–30)
Journeys of the Mother in the World of Green Gables / Nancy Huse (131–8)
The Female Bildungsroman in Nineteenth-Century America: Parameters of a Vision / Eve Kornfeld and Susan Jackson (139–52)
Anne of Green Gables: A Girl’s Reading / Temma F. Berg (153–64)
Suggestions for Further Reading: A Guide to the Research and Criticism on Anne of Green Gables
Contributors (191–3)
Index (195–201)
Reviews
Reviews by Deborah Blenkhorn, Anne K. Phillips, and Paul Tiessen.
