100 Years of Anne with an 'e'
The Centennial Study of Anne of Green Gables
- Publisher
- University of Calgary Press
- Initial publish date
- Mar 2012
- Category
- Canadian, Women Authors, Women
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- ISBN
- 9781552384886
- Publish Date
- Mar 2012
- List Price
- $29.95
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"I cast 'moral' and 'Sunday School' ideals to the winds and made my 'Anne' a real human girl." - L. M. Montgomery
In 2008, Anne fans everywhere celebrated the 100th birthday of Lucy Maud Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables. Though Anne has always been recognized as a Canadian classic, her story is loved the world over.
In 100 Years of Anne with an "e": The Centennial Study of Anne of Green Gables, Holly Blackford has brought together an international community of scholars who situate L. M. Montgomery's novel in its original historical and literary context, discuss its timeless themes, and explore its aesthetic and cultural legacy across time and place.
Blackford's collection certainly proves Anne's international appeal, gathering contributors from Australia, Canada, Germany, Ireland, and the United States. Their essays explore diverse themes such as L.M. Montgomery's career and writing practices, her influence on Canadian fiction, shifting views and definitions of childhood, domesticity, identity and place, and Anne on film.
This new look at the beloved red-headed orphan will appeal to any reader who just can't get enough of Anne.
With Contributions By: Joy Alexander Hilary Emmett Irene Gammel Monika Hidler Melissa Mullins Eleanor Hersey Nickel Sharyn Pearce E. Holly Pike Cornelia Remi Laura M. Robinson Christiana R. Salah Theodore Sheckels
About the authors
Holly Blackford is an associate professor of English and scholar of women's, children's, adolescent, and American literature at Rutgers University. She has published extensively on novels of youth and development by such authors as Louisa May Alcott, J. M. Barrie, Margaret Atwood, Lewis Carroll, Mark Twain, Henry James, and Harper Lee. Her first book, Out of this World: Why Literature Matters to Girls, is an ethnographic study of girls who find in literature a meaningful aesthetic experience.
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Irene Gammel holds a Canada Research Chair in Modern Literature and Culture at Ryerson University in Toronto, where she is also the Director of the Modern Literature and Culture Research Center dedicated to the study of modern women writers. The author and editor of 13 books, Gammel is the curator of the exhibit Anne of Green Gables: A Literary Icon at 100. Together with Suzanne Zelazo she has co-edited Body Sweats: The Uncensored Writings of Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven (2010) and Crystal Flowers: Poems and a Libretto by Florine Stettheimer (BookThug, 2010). Gammel divides her time between Toronto and Sackville, New Brunswick.
E. Holly Pike, former associate professor of English at Memorial University of Newfoundland, is co-editor, with Laura M. Robinson, of L.M. Montgomery and Gender.
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Laura M. Robinson is dean of arts and professor of English and theatre, cross-appointed women's and gender studies at Acadia University.
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Theodore Sheckels' profile page
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The Story of Battlefield Artist Mary Riter Hamilton
Florine Stettheimer
New Directions in Multimodal Modernism
Body Sweats
The Uncensored Writings of Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven
Crystal Flowers
Poems and a Libretto
Looking for Anne
How Lucy Maud Montgomery Dreamed Up a Literary Classic
Baroness Elsa
Gender, Dada, and Everyday Modernity-A Cultural Biography
L.M. Montgomery and Canadian Culture
Sexualizing Power in Naturalism
Theodore Dreiser and Frederick Philip Grove
