Anthologies and the Making of the Poetic Canon

Houston, Natalie M.

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A Companion to Victorian Poetry 2008

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Anthologies and the Making of the Poetic Canon

Natalie M. Houston¹

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“…Recommended starting points are Hobbs, Marotti, and Love, and, with a particular emphasis on female writers and compilers, Burke. It is also important to note that printed verse collections were not just an 18th‐century phenomenon: for a guide to earlier and later printed collections see, respectively, Smyth and Houston. For surveys which consider the broad sweep of verse collections, from early modern times to the present day, see Ferry and Lethbridge.…”

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Eighteenth‐Century Verse Miscellanies

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2012

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Thousands of verse collections containing the works of multiple authors were published in the 18th century. This essay offers a guide to recent scholarship on these collections of ‘poems by several hands’. It provides an overview of the many different kinds of miscellany and anthology that were produced, before exploring what these publications might reveal about the 18th‐century literary landscape. It considers what miscellanies and anthologies contribute to our understanding of authorship and anonymity, genre, canon formation and the literary past, women writers, and regionalism and nationalism. It then investigates what these texts reveal about 18th‐century reading practices, and about the workings of the 18th‐century book trade. The essay concludes with an account of an important current research project, the Digital Miscellanies Index.

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Boz, Ba and Derry Down Derry: Names and Pseudonyms in Victorian Literature

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2009

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In nineteenth-century fiction and poetry, names are frequently shown to be unstable, unreliable and occasionally dangerous. From the limericks of Edward Lear to the fiction of Charles Dickens, Victorian literature seems to pre-empt Jacques Derrida's deconstructionist reading of name and signature, which insists that a name can never belong to the thing or person that it names, but has an independent existence in the system of signs that make up language. However, the Victorian interest in names and naming, which was rooted in both the philosophy of the period and in the prominence of names in the newly commodified marketplace, was also characterised by a faith in the power of naming and a concern about the responsibility that a name entailed.800 Boz, Ba and Derry Down Derry

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Anthology and Absence: The Post-9/11 Anthologizing Impulse

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2015

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The decade after the attacks of 9/11 and the fall of the World Trade Center saw a proliferation of New York-themed literary anthologies from a wide range of publishers. With titles like Poetry After 9/11, Manhattan Sonnet, Poems of New York, Writing New York, and I Speak of the City, these texts variously reflect upon their own post-9/11 plurivocality as preservative, regenerative, and reconstructive. However, the work of such anthologies is more complex than filling with plurivocality the physical and emotional hole of Ground Zero. These regional collections operate on the dilemma of all anthologies: that between collecting and editing. Every anthology, and every anthologist, negotiates the relationship between what is present and what is missing. In light of some of the emerging and established scholarship on the history of the English-language anthology, this article reads closely the declarative paratexts and the silent but equally powerful canonical choices of several different post-9/11 poetry anthologies. In so doing, the article comes to suggest the ways the anthology’s necessary formal incorporation of absence and presence, rather than its plurivocality alone, connects collections of New York’s literature to the fraught discourse of memorialization and rebuilding at the site of the World Trade Center.

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Anthologies and the Making of the Poetic Canon

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Eighteenth‐Century Verse Miscellanies

Eighteenth‐Century Verse Miscellanies

Boz, Ba and Derry Down Derry: Names and Pseudonyms in Victorian Literature

Anthology and Absence: The Post-9/11 Anthologizing Impulse

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