Looking For Anne: How Lucy Maud Montgomery Dreamed Up a Literary Classic - Hardcover

Gammel, Irene

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1552639851 ISBN 13: 9781552639856

Publisher: Key Porter Books, 2008

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"Drawing on a vast array of neglected and unknown sources, this groundbreaking study establishes new connections between Montgomery's isolated life in Cavendish, P.E.I., and the metropolitan existence that she consumed vicariously through magazines published in New York, Boston and Philadelphia. ""Looking for Anne"" is a highly readable, top-rate study that [provides] a new spin on Montgomery's text."-- "Globe and Mail "(click here for the full article, "Eternally Anne")

"Rather than simply rehashing available material, Ryerson professor and noted literary researcher Irene Gammel ... explores the social and literary influences that guided and inspired Montgomery in creating her impetuous heroine. ... Even more fascinating is the amount of inspiration Montgomery found in the myriad of current magazines and journals that made their way into her hands via the desk of her grandmother the town postmistress." -- ""Quill and Quire """"""

"""Looking for Anne ""is a fascinating and wonderful book. It brings forward an amazing wealth of new information, filling in many gaps (some of which I didn't even know existed!), and is presented in a captivating narrative that is very well organized and a great read. The research is fabulous.... It's rather like the Road to "Xanadu.""-- Carole Gerson, Simon Fraser University and co-editor of ""History of the Book in Canada""
.,." The material is incredible, the interpretive work unsurpassable. "-- Holly Virginia Blackford, Rutgers University-Camden.

"Interesting and well-researched."--"The New York Times
""Drawing on a vast array of neglected and unknown sources, this groundbreaking study establishes new connections between Montgomery's isolated life in Cavendish, P.E.I., and the metropolitan existence that she consumed vicariously through magazines published in New York, Boston and Philadelphia. ""Looking for Anne"" is a highly readable, top-rate study that [provides] a new spin on Montgomery's text."-- "Globe and Mail
""Rather than simply rehashing available material, Ryerson professor and noted literary researcher Irene Gammel ... explores the social and literary influences that guided and inspired Montgomery in creating her impetuous heroine. ... Even more fascinating is the amount of inspiration Montgomery found in the myriad of current magazines and journals that made their way into her hands via the desk of her grandmother the town postmistress." -- ""Quill and Quire
"""""Looking for Anne ""is a fascinating and wonderful book. It brings forward an amazing wealth of new information, filling in many gaps (some of which I didn't even know existed!), and is presented in a captivating narrative that is very well organized and a great read. The research is fabulous.... It's rather like the Road to "Xanadu.""-- Carole Gerson, Simon Fraser University and co-editor of ""History of the Book in Canada""
..". The material is incredible, the interpretive work unsurpassable. "-- Holly Virginia Blackford, Rutgers University-Camden.

Interesting and well-researched. "The New York Times"

Drawing on a vast array of neglected and unknown sources, this groundbreaking study establishes new connections between Montgomery's isolated life in Cavendish, P.E.I., and the metropolitan existence that she consumed vicariously through magazines published in New York, Boston and Philadelphia. "Looking for Anne" is a highly readable, top-rate study that [provides] a new spin on Montgomery's text. "Globe and Mail"

Rather than simply rehashing available material, Ryerson professor and noted literary researcher Irene Gammel explores the social and literary influences that guided and inspired Montgomery in creating her impetuous heroine. Even more fascinating is the amount of inspiration Montgomery found in the myriad of current magazines and journals that made their way into her hands via the desk of her grandmother the town postmistress. "Quill and Quire"

"Looking for Anne "is a fascinating and wonderful book. It brings forward an amazing wealth of new information, filling in many gaps (some of which I didn't even know existed!), and is presented in a captivating narrative that is very well organized and a great read. The research is fabulous . It's rather like the Road to "Xanadu." "Carole Gerson, Simon Fraser University and co-editor of History of the Book in Canada"

... The material is incredible, the interpretive work unsurpassable. "Holly Virginia Blackford, Rutgers University-Camden.""

"Interesting and well-researched." --The New York Times

"Drawing on a vast array of neglected and unknown sources, this groundbreaking study establishes new connections between Montgomery's isolated life in Cavendish, P.E.I., and the metropolitan existence that she consumed vicariously through magazines published in New York, Boston and Philadelphia. Looking for Anne is a highly readable, top-rate study that [provides] a new spin on Montgomery's text." --Globe and Mail

"Rather than simply rehashing available material, Ryerson professor and noted literary researcher Irene Gammel ... explores the social and literary influences that guided and inspired Montgomery in creating her impetuous heroine. ... Even more fascinating is the amount of inspiration Montgomery found in the myriad of current magazines and journals that made their way into her hands via the desk of her grandmother the town postmistress. " --Quill and Quire

"Looking for Anne is a fascinating and wonderful book. It brings forward an amazing wealth of new information, filling in many gaps (some of which I didn't even know existed!), and is presented in a captivating narrative that is very well organized and a great read. The research is fabulous.... It's rather like the Road to Xanadu." --Carole Gerson, Simon Fraser University and co-editor of History of the Book in Canada

..". The material is incredible, the interpretive work unsurpassable. " --Holly Virginia Blackford, Rutgers University-Camden.

About the Author:

IRENE GAMMEL is an English professor and holds the Canada Research Chair in Modern Literature and Culture at Ryerson University, Toronto. She has served as president of the Canadian Comparative Literature Association and as an editorial board member of Canadian Literature. She lives in Toronto, Canada.

About this edition

• Publisher: Key Porter Books
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1552639851
• ISBN 13: 9781552639856
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 312