Robert Lecker

Keepers of the Code

English-Canadian Literary Anthologies and the Representation of the Nation

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Produktbeschreibung

Robert Lecker explores the ways in which these anthologies contributed to the formation of a Canadian literary canon, the extent to which this canon was tied to an ideal of English-Canadian nationalism, and the material conditions accounting for the anthologies’ production.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Februar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 154mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 699g
• ISBN-13: 9781442645714
• ISBN-10: 1442645717
• Artikelnr.: 37056088

Autorenporträt

Robert Lecker is Greenshields Professor of English at McGill University and a literary agent in Montreal. He founded and was co-publisher of ECW Press from 1977 to 2003.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Nineteenth-Century Anthologies and the Making of Canadian Literature,
1837–1900
2. Representations of Nation: Watson and Pierce’s Our Canadian Literature,
1900–1922
3. Anthologies between the Wars, 1922–1943   
4. From The Book of Canadian Poetry to New Wave Canada, 1943–1966
5. Nation Making, Nation Breaking, 1967–1982
6. Solidifying the Canadian Canon, 1982–1996
7. Keeping the Code, 1996–2010
Works Cited