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W. W. Norton & Company : College Books

Anne of Green Gables

Contents

  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements, Abbreviations
  • List of Illustrations
  • The Text of Anne of Green Gables
  • Anne of Green Gables
  • A Note on the Text
  • Manuscript Additions
  • Backgrounds
  • JOURNALS, CORRESPONDENCE, JUVENILIA
  • Journal Entry (1889)
  • “A Girl’s Place at Dalhousie College” (1896)
  • Journal Entry (1901)
  • “The Strike at Putney” (1903)
  • Manuscript Journal Entry (1905)
  • Letter to Ephraim Weber (1907)
  • Journal Entry (1907)
  • Letter to G. B. MacMillan (1908)
  • Letter to Ephraim Weber (1908)
  • Journal Entry (1910)
  • Journal Entry (1911)
  • Journal Entry (1914)
  • “I Dwell Among My Own People” (c.1920/21)
  • Journal Entry (1930)
  • LITERARY CONTEXT
  • The Bible • From Daniel
  • John Morison • From “The Race that Long in Darkness Pined”
  • Sir Walter Scott • From “Marmion”
  • Lord Byron • From “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage”
  • Caroline Oliphant, Baroness Nairne • From “The Maiden’s Vow”
  • William Cullen Bryant • From “Song of the Greek Amazon”
  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow • From “Hymn to Night”
  • Caroline Norton • From “Bingen on the Rhine”
  • Alfred, Lord Tennyson • From “Tears, Idle Tears”
    From “Lancelot and Elaine”
  • Louisa May Alcott • From Little Women
  • Kate Douglas Wiggin • From Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
  • Clarence Karr • “Addicted to Books”
  • CULTURAL CONTEXT
  • Carole Gerson • “Author, Publisher, and Fictional Character”
  • Kate Wood • “In the News”
  • Mary Rubio • “Scottish-Presbyterian Agency”
  • Criticism
  • EARLY REVIEWS AND RESPONSES
  • From The New York Times (1908)
  • From The Globe (1908)
  • From The Spectator (1908)
  • From The Patriot (1909)
  • From English-Canadian Literature (1913)
  • From Head-Waters of Canadian Literature (1924)
  • From Poteen (1926)
  • From The Peterborough Examiner (1942)
  • MODERN CRITICAL VIEWS
  • Northrop Frye • “The Pastoral Myth”
  • Elizabeth Epperly • “Romancing the Voice”
  • Marah Gubar • “The Pleasures of Postponement”
  • Cecily Devereux • “The Culture of Imperial Motherhood”
  • Gabriella ‰hmansson • “Lying and the Imagination”
  • Frank Davey • “Ambiguity and Anxiety”
  • T. D. MacLulich • “L. M. Montgomery and the Literary Heroine”
  • Virginia Careless • “L.M. Montgomery and Everybody Else”
  • Juliet McMaster • “Hair Red, Black, Gold, and Nut-brown”
  • Rosemary Johnston • “L.M. Montgomery’s Interior/Exterior Landscapes”
  • Elizabeth Waterston • “To the World of Story”
  • Catherine Sheldrick Ross • “Readers Reading L.M. Montgomery”
  • Carol Shields • “Exuberant vision”
  • Margaret Atwood • “Revisiting Anne”
  • Lucy Maud Montgomery: A Chronology
  • Selected Bibliography