Anne around the World: L.M. Montgomery and Her Classic 9780773588585
New perspectives on the literary classic that enchants and engages readers across times and cultures.
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English Pages 304 [313] Year 2013
Table of contents :
Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Situating Montgomery and Her Classic
Anne of Green Gables – and Afterward
Lasting Images of Anne of Green Gables
Uncertainties Surrounding the Death of L.M. Montgomery
A Century of Critical Reflection on Anne of Green Gables
The Terrain of the Classic: Allusions and Intertexts
L.M. Montgomery and the Significance of "Classics," Ancient and Modern
"So– so– commonplace": Romancing the Local in Anne of Green Gables and Aurora Leigh
"Matthew's school of critics": Learning to Read Anne of Green Gables
Anne of Green Gables as Centre and Circumference
Provoking the Classic: Class, Colonialism, and Christianity
"Nice Folks": L.M. Montgomery's Classic and Subversive Inscriptions and Transgressions of Class
Civilizing Anne: Missionaries of the South Seas, Cavendish Evangelicalism, and the Crafting of Anne of Green Gables
Narrating the "Classic" on Stolen Ground: Anne of Green Gables
Anne and After: The Local and Global Circulation of the Classic Text
Teaching and Reading Anne of Green Gables in Iran, the Land of Omar Khayyam
Reading Anne of Green Gables in Montevideo
Teaching Anne and Antonia in Turkey: Feminist Girlhood in L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables and Willa Cather's My Antonia
The Continuous Popularity of Red-haired Anne in Japan: An Interview with Yoshiko Akamatsu
"I experienced a light that became a part of me": Reading Anne of Green Gables in Sweden
Paratext and Aftertexts: Further Words on Anne
"I just love pretty clothes": Considering the Sartorial in Anne of Green Gables
Writing after Anne: L.M. Montgomery's Influence on Canadian Children's Literature
Writing Before Green Gables
Author Biographies
Index
Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Situating Montgomery and Her Classic
Anne of Green Gables – and Afterward
Lasting Images of Anne of Green Gables
Uncertainties Surrounding the Death of L.M. Montgomery
A Century of Critical Reflection on Anne of Green Gables
The Terrain of the Classic: Allusions and Intertexts
L.M. Montgomery and the Significance of "Classics," Ancient and Modern
"So– so– commonplace": Romancing the Local in Anne of Green Gables and Aurora Leigh
"Matthew's school of critics": Learning to Read Anne of Green Gables
Anne of Green Gables as Centre and Circumference
Provoking the Classic: Class, Colonialism, and Christianity
"Nice Folks": L.M. Montgomery's Classic and Subversive Inscriptions and Transgressions of Class
Civilizing Anne: Missionaries of the South Seas, Cavendish Evangelicalism, and the Crafting of Anne of Green Gables
Narrating the "Classic" on Stolen Ground: Anne of Green Gables
Anne and After: The Local and Global Circulation of the Classic Text
Teaching and Reading Anne of Green Gables in Iran, the Land of Omar Khayyam
Reading Anne of Green Gables in Montevideo
Teaching Anne and Antonia in Turkey: Feminist Girlhood in L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables and Willa Cather's My Antonia
The Continuous Popularity of Red-haired Anne in Japan: An Interview with Yoshiko Akamatsu
"I experienced a light that became a part of me": Reading Anne of Green Gables in Sweden
Paratext and Aftertexts: Further Words on Anne
"I just love pretty clothes": Considering the Sartorial in Anne of Green Gables
Writing after Anne: L.M. Montgomery's Influence on Canadian Children's Literature
Writing Before Green Gables
Author Biographies
Index
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