Such a Simple Little Tale: Critical Responses to L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables

by Mavis Reimer (Editor)

Overview

New in paperback 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.

Contributors: Temma R. Berg, Susan Drain, Carol Gay, Nancy Huse, Susan Jackson, Eve Kornfeld, T.D. MacLulich, Perry Nodelman, Mavis Reimer, Catherine Ross, Mary Rubio, Marilyn Solt, Gillian Thomas, Janet Weiss-Townsend, and Muriel Whitaker.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780810839854
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	01/01/1992
Edition description:	REV
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	5.42(w) x 8.58(h) x 0.56(d)

About the Author

Mavis Reimer is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Winnipeg, where she teaches Victorian studies and children's literature. She is the co-author, with Perry Nodelman, of the third edition of The Pleasures of Children's Literature. In her current project, she is one of a team of researchers investigating the representation of home in Canadian children's literature.

Table of Contents

1 Queer Children: L. M. Montgomery's Heroines 1975 2 The Decline of Anne: Matron vs. Child 1975 3 Progressive Utopia: Or, How to Grow Up Without Growing Up 1979 4 Calling Back the Ghost of the Old-Time Herione: Duncan, Montgomery, Atwood, Laurence, and Monro 1979 5 The Uses of Setting in Anne of Green Gables 1984-85 6 Anne of Green Gables: The Architect of Adolescence 1985 7 L. M. Montgomery's Portraits of the Artist: Realism, Idealism, and the Domestic Imagination 1985 8 "Kindred Spirits" All: Green Gables Revisited 1986 9 Sexism Down on the Farm? Anne of Green Gables 1986 10 Community and the Individual in Anne of Green Gables: The Meaning of Belonging 1986 11 Journeys of the Mother in the World of Green Gables 1986 12 The Female Bildungsroman in Ninteenth-Century America: Parameters of a Vision 1987 13 Anne of Green Gables: A Girl's Reading 1988

Editorial Reviews

...will let the growing number of Montgomery's "serious" readers-come-lately see the movement toward the new critical possibilities that scholars have increasingly come to find in L.M. Montgomery and her work.

English Studies In Canada

...conveniently assembles materials that may be inaccessible for some students and provides a sound introduction to the critical discussion of a perennially popular novel.

Choice Reviews

...conveniently assembles materials that may be inaccessible for some students and provides a sound introduction to the critical discussion of a perennially popular novel.

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...conveniently assembles materials that may be inaccessible for some students and provides a sound introduction to the critical discussion of a perennially popular novel.--CHOICE

...will let the growing number of Montgomery's "serious" readers-come-lately see the movement toward the new critical possibilities that scholars have increasingly come to find in L.M. Montgomery and her work.--English Studies In Canada

Reimer does considerable service to the study...because of the inclusion of a consciousness-raising bibliographic essay...excellent critical writing...--Australian Library Journal

From the Publisher

...conveniently assembles materials that may be inaccessible for some students and provides a sound introduction to the critical discussion of a perennially popular novel.

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