Such a simple little tale : critical responses to L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables

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Such a simple little tale : critical responses to L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables

Mavis Reimer, editor

Children's Literature Association : Scarecrow Press, 2003, c1992

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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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.

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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

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