The fascinating history of poetry anthologies and their influence on British society and culture over the last four centuries.

For centuries, poetry anthologies shaped the way that generations of British readers encountered literature. Eighteenth-century young women were introduced to the permissible bits of Shakespeare and Swift in censored collectionsWorking-class Victorians enrolled to be taught from The Golden Treasury at adult learning colleges. Pop-loving teenagers in the 1960s got their first taste of the counterculture from the bestselling The Mersey Sound.

InThe Treasuries, Clare Bucknell reveals anthologies to be a unique window into social historyThis is the story of some of the most widely read books ever published, and the cultural conversations – around politics, gender, class and nationhood – they sparked.

Format Häftad Omfång 352 sidor Språk Engelska Förlag Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Utgivningsdatum 2024-02-01 ISBN 9781800241459