Keepers of the Code

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.

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
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