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NEW CANADIAN LIBRARY: THE ROSS-McCLELLAND YEARS, 1952–1978 This page intentionally left blank JANET B. FRISKNEY New Canadian Library: The Ross-McClelland Years, 1952–1978 UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS Toronto Buffalo London © University of Toronto Press Incorporated 2007 Toronto Buffalo London www.utppublishing.com Printed in Canada isbn: 978-0-8020-9746-0 Printed on acid-free paper Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication Friskney, Janet Beverly, 1968– New Canadian library : the Ross-McClelland years, 1952–1978 / Janet B. Friskney. (Studies in book and print culture) Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn: 978-0-8020-9746-0 1. New Canadian Library – History and criticism. 2. Canadian literature – 20th century – History and criticism. 3. Ross, Malcolm, 1911–. 4. McClelland, Jack, 1922–. I. Title. II. Series. z483.m33f75 2007 070.509713(cid:99)541 c2007-903257-5 University of Toronto Press acknowledges the financial assistance to its publishing program of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council. University of Toronto Press acknowledges the financial support for its publishing activities of the Government of Canada through the Book Publishing Industry Development Program (BPIDP). For Mom, who has always encouraged me to buy books. And in memory of Dad, who introduced me to the wonder of borrowing them. This page intentionally left blank If Canadian books are mingled with books from England and the United States and all the other lands that publish in English, they are likely to be lost, for their tone is not aggressive or eccentric. But gather them together as a Canadian library, and consider them as the production of a land and a people, and they assume a more impressive stature. Robertson Davies, ‘The Northern Muse’ (1964) This page intentionally left blank Contents illustrations xi acknowledgments xiii abbreviations xvii Introduction 3 Part One: The Historical Narrative 1 Malcolm Ross, Jack McClelland, and the Launch of the NCL 21 2 Establishing a Canadian Literary Reprint Series, 1958–1967 44 3 Establishment and Its Discontents, 1968–1978 67 Part Two: Editorial Practices and the Selective Tradition 4 Selection, Rejection, and Compromise 91 5 On the Matter of the Source Text 122 6 Canonical Conundrums 152 Appendix A New Canadian Library Titles, 1958–1978 186 Appendix B Copies of NCL Titles Sold Annually, 1958–1979 196 Appendix C Titles Proposed but Not Included in the NCL to 1978 205
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