Reflections on Our Relationships with Anne of Green Gables: Kindred Spirits

by Jessica Carniel (editor), Nike Sulway (Editor)

This collection of essays brings together passionate readers and literary critics from Canada, the US, Japan, and Australia. The essays ruminate on readers individual and collective relationships to one of the most iconic characters of Western Anne of Green Gables. This relationship is imagined and interrogated through a range of critical and creative lenses, including studies of fan culture, translation, adaptation and imagination. The collection is unique in inviting responses that draw deeply on personal connections to Anne, and the ways that readers relationships to her have shifted over time. The book will appeal most particularly to readers seeking essays and other works that bridge the divide between a critical and a more personal response to our Anne girl.

196 pages, Hardcover

Published July 19, 2021