Date of Award
Fall 12-2012
Degree Type
Masters Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
English
School
Humanities
Committee Chair
Eric Tribunella
Committee Chair Department
English
Committee Chair School
Humanities
Committee Member 2
Ellen Weinauer
Committee Member 3
Jameela Lares
Committee Member 3 Department
English
Committee Member 3 School
Humanities
Abstract
In L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables (1908), heroine Anne Shirley seemingly dreams her way through life, envisioning scenes of romance or adventure in order to endure and overcome obstacles. This use of imagination serves as a means of ideological transcendence for an early twentieth-century girl in rural Canada, thus enabling Anne to triumph in her community. Anne's employment of imagination functions in similar ways to that of certian discursive strands of Canadian suffrage in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. By examining Anne of Green Gables alongside the ways in which these suffrage factions used imagination to free themselves from conventional thought, as well as influence others to join their cause, we see how imagination can operate as an agent of change.
Copyright
2012, Paige Marie Gray
Recommended Citation
Gray, Paige M., ""Bloom In the Moonshine": Imagination As Liberation In Anne of Green Gables" (2012). Master's Theses. 979.
https://aquila.usm.edu/masters_theses/979