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.

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.