Anne of Green Gables, Elijah of Buxton, and Margaret of Newfoundland

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Mackey, Margaret

• Bakhtin’s concept of the chronotope, the representation of a particular time and space in an artistic work, is used to explore connections between Anne of Green Gables (Montgomery, 1908) and Elijah of Buxton (2007). Written a century apart, these novels both feature an eleven-year-old protagonist in a 19th century Canadian village, though in many crucial ways they are worlds apart. Using each as a lens for looking at the other raises new questions about how each author has chosen to draw on history and geography to create a Canadian fiction.

• Date created

  2008

• Subjects / Keywords

  • For children
  • Relationship to adaptation
  • Commodification
  • Compared to Curtis, Christopher Paul: Elijah of Buxton
  • Chronotope
  • Multiculturalism

• Type of Item

  Article (Published)

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/R3R49GP64

• License

  © 2008 Margaret Mackey. This version of this article is open access and can be downloaded and shared. The original author(s) and source must be cited.