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Author Lecker, Robert, 1951-

Title Keepers of the code : English-Canadian literary anthologies and the representation of nation / Robert Lecker.

Publication Info. Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2013]
©2013

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Description 1 online resource (388 pages)
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-366) and index.
Contents 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.
Summary 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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Subject Anthologies -- History and criticism.
Anthologies.
Anthologies -- Editing.
Anthologies -- Editing.
Literature publishing -- Canada -- History.
Literature publishing.
Canada.
History.
Canon (Literature)
Canon (Literature)
National characteristics, Canadian, in literature.
National characteristics, Canadian, in literature.
Canada -- In literature.
Canadian literature (English) -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: 9781442645714 1442645717
ISBN 1442663464 (electronic book)
9781442663466 (electronic book)
9781442645714 (bound)
1442645717 (bound)
9781442613966 (paperback)
1442613963 (paperback)