ENG252Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Idyll, Cultural Imperialism, Maternalism
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The essays are due not this coming thursday but the next. Please staple a copy of your outline to the final essay. Anne of green gables is a good choice, especially because we have a recent video adaptation on the novel. We can look at how the different adaptations approach the original novel. They seize on different aspects of the novel. Anne of green gables was rejected by five publishers before it was taken up by an american publisher: there is a passage commenting on the lore of american publishing, and how. Canadian authors were tempted to leave canada for greater success in the us: once the novel was published, it met with immediate success. She still felt, however, alienated from the modernist tradition of the time. She was, however, tired with the character, which may explain why anne gets more and more complacent: montgomery was concerned with women"s education, which was very politicized at the time.
