Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 3
5. Situating Montgomery and Her Classic
6. Anne of Green Gables – and Afterward 27
7. Lasting Images of Anne of Green Gables 35
8. Uncertainties Surrounding the Death of L.M. Montgomery 45
9. A Century of Critical Reflection on Anne of Green Gables 63
10. The Terrain of the Classic: Allu sions and Intertexts
11. L.M. Montgomery and the Significance of “Classics,” Ancient and Modern 83
12. “So– so– commonplace”: Romancing the Local in Anne of Green Gables and Aurora Leigh 92
13. “Matthew’s School of Critics”: Learning to Read Anne of Green Gables 106
14. Anne of Green Gables as Centre and Circumference 120
15. Provoking the Classic: Class, Colonialism, and Christianity
16. “Nice Folks”: L.M. Montgomery’s Classic and Subversive Inscriptions and Transgressions of Class 133
17. Civilizing Anne: Missionaries of the South Seas, Cavendish Evangelicalism, and the Crafting of Anne of Green Gables 147
18. Narrating the “Classic” on Stolen Ground: Anne of Green Gables 164
19. Anne and After: The Local and Global Circulation of the Classic Text
20. Teaching and Reading Anne of Green Gables in Iran, the Land of Omar Khayyam 181
21. Reading Anne of Green Gables in Montevideo 192
22. Teaching Anne and Antonia in Turkey: Feminist Girlhood in L.M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables and Willa Cather’s My Antonia 200
23. The Continuous Popularity of Red-haired Anne in Japan: An Interview with Yoshiko Akamatsu 216
24. “I experienced a Light That Became a Part of me”: Reading Anne of Green Gables in Sweden 228
25. Paratext and Aftertexts: Further Words on Anne
26. “I just Love Pretty Clothes”: Considering the Sartorial in Anne of Green Gables 245
27. Writing after Anne: L.M. Montgomery’s Influence on Canadian Children’s Literature 262
28. Writing Before Green Gables 281
29. Author Biographies 289
30. Index 297