“I’ve never belonged to anybody—not really”: Space, place, and the bildungsroman in L. M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables (1908)

Drawing on the work of geographers Yi-Fu Tuan and Edward Relph, this article takes up concepts such as place, space, rootedness, insideness, and outsideness to argue that, in L. M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables (1908), Green Gables (both the farm and the house) are central to protagonist Anne’s...

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