Anthologies of British Poetry : : Critical Perspectives from Literary and Cultural Studies / / edited by Barbara Korte, Ralf Schneider, Stefanie Lethbridge.

• Superior document: Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 48
• TeilnehmendeR: Korte, Barbara,; Lethbridge, Stefanie,; Schneider, Ralf,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2000.
• Year of Publication: 2000
• Language: English
• Series: Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 48.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (355 pages)
• Other title: Critical Perspectives from Literary and Cultural Studies
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004486321
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Barbara Korte, Ralf Schneider, Stefanie Lethbridge.

From Tottel's Miscellany (1557) to the last twentieth-century Oxford Book of English Verse (1999), anthologies have been a prime institution for the preservation and mediation of poetry. The importance of anthologies for creating and re-creating the canon of English poetry, for introducing 'new' programmes of poetry, as a record of changing poetic fashions, audience tastes and reading practices, or as a profitable literary commodity has often been asserted. Despite its impact, however, the poetry anthology in itself has attracted surprisingly little critical interest in Britain or elsewhere in the English-speaking world. This volume is the first publication to explore the largely unmapped field of poetry anthologies in Britain. Essays written from a wide range of perspectives in literary and cultural studies, and the point of view of poets, editors, publishers and cultural institutions, aim to do justice to the typological, functional and historical variety with which this form of publication has manifested itself - from early modern print culture to the postmodern age of the world wide web.