Anne of Green Gables: an Introduction, or, The Novel

In this first episode, join Jennifer and her special guest, Emma Wood, for an in-depth conversation about the novel as an object. Come for the history of books, stay for the audiobook hot-takes!

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McGregor, Hannah. A Sentimental Education. Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2022.

Uchiyama, Akiko. “Akage No An in Japanese Girl Culture: Muraoka Hanako’s Translation of Anne of Green Gables.” Japan Forum (Oxford, England) 26, no. 2 (2014): 209–223.

 BLACKFORD, HOLLY. “UNATTACHED WOMEN RAISING CAIN: SPINSTERS TOUCHING ORPHANS IN ANNE OF GREEN GABLES AND UNCLE TOM’S CABIN.” South (Chapel Hill, N.C.) 51, no. 1 (2018): 36–53.

Gubar, Marah. “‘Where Is the Boy?’: The Pleasures of Postponement in the Anne of Green Gables Series.” The Lion and the Unicorn, vol. 25, no. 1, 2001, pp. 47–69.

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Blackford, Holly Virginia. 100 Years of Anne with an “e” the Centennial Study of Anne of Green Gables. Calgary [Alta: University of Calgary Press, 2009.

BRENNAN, JOSEPH GERARD. “CLASSICS REVISITED: The Story of a Classic: Anne and After.” The American Scholar 64, no. 2 (1995): 247–56. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41212322.