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| | Anthologies and Miscellanies |
 | | Site Information: Accepting the principle that a discussion of the canonization of literary texts can never be separated from a discussion of the ways in which they were published, circulated, and put to use in the schools, this site aims to provide a historical and theoretical context for the still-contested canon of English poetry. |
 | | Out of the differences between a principle of selection (the anthology) and a principle of collection (miscellanies and beauties), then, comes a difference in aesthetic value, which is precisely what is at issue in the debates over the "proper" material for inclusion into the canon. |
 | | As it is, we have begun in a period roughly coterminous with our separate research interests: that of the 18th and 19th centuries, though the site is now broadening its perimeters and becoming more concerned with the history of anthologies and miscellanies in general -- see, for example, our sub-page on period anthologies. |
| www.english.ucsb.edu /faculty/rraley/research/anthologies (1271 words) |
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