Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Table of Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Anne with an “e”: The Enduring Value of Anne of Green Gables xi
5. Writing and Placing Anne
6. Wildwood Roses and Sunshine Girls: The Making of Anne of Green Gables as a Popular Romance 1
7. L. M. Montgomery and Literary Professionalism 23
8. Anne with Two “G”s: Green Gables and Geographical Identity 41
9. Romancing Anne: Language and Silence
10. Negotiating the Well-Worn Coin: The Shifting Use of Language in L. M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables 63
11. “Mute Misery”: Speaking the Unspeakable in L. M. Montgomery’s Anne Books 81
12. “The World Hasn’t Changed Very Much”: Romantic Love in Film and Television Versions of Anne of Green Gables 105
13. Quoting Anne: Intertextuality at Home and Abroad
14. Anne and Her Ancestors: Self-Reflexivity from Yonge to Alcott to Montgomery 125
15. Anne of Green Gables as Intertext in Post-1960 Canadian Women’s Fiction 143
16. Interactions with Poetry: Metapoetic Games with Anne in Astrid Lindgren’s Madicken 165
17. Maturing Anne: Gender and Empire
18. A Ministry of Plum Puffs: Cooking as a Path to Spiritual Maturity in L. M. Montgomery’s Anne Books 193
19. The Ethos of Nurture: Revisiting Domesticity in L. M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables 211
20. Constructing a “New Girl”: Gender and National Identity in Anne of Green Gables and Seven Little Australians 229
21. Chronology of Important Events in the Life and Career of Anne’s Creator, Lucy Maud Montgomery 247
22. About the Contributors 251
23. Index 255