Such a Simple Little Tale

Mavis Reimer is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Winnipeg, where she teaches Victorian studies and children's literature. She is the co-author, with Perry Nodelman, of the third edition of The Pleasures of Children's Literature. In her current project, she is one of a team of researchers investigating the representation of home in Canadian children's literature.

...conveniently assembles materials that may be inaccessible for some students and provides a sound introduction to the critical discussion of a perennially popular novel.

• 1 Queer Children: L. M. Montgomery's Heroines 1975 2 The Decline of Anne: Matron vs. Child 1975 3 Progressive Utopia: Or, How to Grow Up Without Growing Up 1979 4 Calling Back the Ghost of the Old-Time Herione: Duncan, Montgomery, Atwood, Laurence, and Monro 1979 5 The Uses of Setting in Anne of Green Gables 1984-85 6 Anne of Green Gables: The Architect of Adolescence 1985 7 L. M. Montgomery's Portraits of the Artist: Realism, Idealism, and the Domestic Imagination 1985 8 Kindred Spirits All: Green Gables Revisited 1986 9 Sexism Down on the Farm? Anne of Green Gables 1986 10 Community and the Individual in Anne of Green Gables: The Meaning of Belonging 1986 11 Journeys of the Mother in the World of Green Gables 1986 12 The Female Bildungsroman in Ninteenth-Century America: Parameters of a Vision 1987 13 Anne of Green Gables: A Girl's Reading 1988