Eli MacLaren
poetry and poetics; Canadian poetry; nature poetry and ecopoetics; Canadian fiction; First Nations writers; bibliography and the history of the book; authorship and publishing history; law and literature; copyright.
Ph.D. (University of Toronto)
M.A. (University of Western Ontario)
B.A. (University of Alberta)
Elsie Fry Laurence and Canadian authorship
John Lovell and history of small-scale Canadian literary publishing
Poetics of the contemporary lyric
Scholarly editing of Alice Munro
Books
Little Resilience: The Ryerson Poetry Chap-Books (Âé¶čAV-Queenâs University Press, 2020)
Dominion and Agency: Copyright and the Structuring of the Canadian Book Trade, 1867â1918 (University of Toronto Press, 2011)
Articles
âScholarly Editing: A Way to Read Al Purdyâs âHouse Guest.ââ An Echo in the Mountains: Al Purdy at One Hundred, edited by Nicholas Bradley. Montreal & Kingston: Âé¶čAV-Queenâs University Press, 2020. 173â96.
ââ Imprinting Canada: The McGraw-Hill Ryerson Collection, edited by Ruth Panofsky. Ryerson University Library (2019).
âCopyright and Poetry in Twenty-First-Century Canada: Poetsâ Incomes and Fair Dealing.â Canadian Literature 233 (2018): 10â27.
âCanadian Book History.â In The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature, edited by Cynthia Sugars. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. 799â812.
âLa malĂ©diction littĂ©raire au Canada anglais: Le cas de Lionel Stevenson.â Dans Deux siĂšcles de malĂ©diction littĂ©raire: Transformations, mĂ©diations et transferts dâun mythe, dirigĂ© par Pascal Brissette et Marie Pier-Luneau. LiĂšge (Belgique): Presses universitaires de LiĂšge, 2014. 231â40.
ââSignificant Little Offeringsâ: The Origin of the Ryerson Poetry Chap-Books, 1925â26.â Canadian Poetry: Studies, Documents, Reviews 72 (2013): 9â49.
JosĂ©e Vincent and Eli MacLaren. âBook Policy and Copyright in Canada and Quebec: Defending National Cultures.â Canadian Literature 204 (2010): 63â82.
âLes politiques du livre au QuĂ©bec et au Canada, Ă la dĂ©fense des cultures nationales.â In RĂ©seaux et circulation internationale du livre: diplomatie culturelle et propagande 1880-1980, edited by François Vallotton. Paris: Ăditions Nouveau Monde, 2011.
âResistance, Rebellion, and Print in the Northwest.â In History of the Book in Canada. Vol. 2, 1840â1918, edited by Yvan Lamonde, Patricia Lockhart Fleming, and Fiona A. Black. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005. 343â49.
âFacies cholerica: the Record of Cholera in Print.â In History of the Book in Canada. Vol. 1, Beginnings to 1840, edited by Patricia Lockhart Fleming, Gilles Gallichan, and Yvan Lamonde. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004. 303â6.
Edited Volumes
Edited Journal Issues
Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada 50, no.1 â 55, no. 1 (Spring 2012 to Spring 2017), 10 issues, 40 articles.
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Guest-Edited Journal Issues
âThe Generation and Regeneration of Books / La gĂ©nĂ©ration et rĂ©gĂ©nĂ©rations du livre (SHARP 2015)â. Special issue. MĂ©moires du livre / Studies in Book Culture 7, no. 2 (2016).
âNew Studies in the History of Reading / Nouvelles recherches en histoire de la lecture.â Special issue, MĂ©moires du livre / Studies in Book Culture 3, no. 2 (2012).
âBibliography and Book History in Canada: Views on the State of the Discipline.â Special issue, Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada 46, no. 1 (Spring 2008).
Book Reviews
Review of The Handover: How Bigwigs and Bureaucrats Transferred Canadaâs Best Publisher and the Best Part of Our Literary Heritage to a Foreign Multinational, by Elaine Dewar. University of Toronto Quarterly 88, no. 3 (2019): 112â13.
Review of The Literary Legacy of the Macmillan Company of Canada: Making Books and Mapping Culture, by Ruth Panofsky. Canadian Poetry: Studies, Documents, Reviews 70 (2012): 93â96.
Review of âCollecting Stamps Would Have Been More Funâ: Canadian Publishing and the Correspondence of Sinclair Ross, 1933â1986, edited by Jordan Stouck and David Stouck. 1, no. 3 (Sept. 2011).
Review of Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates, by Adrian Johns. Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada 48, no. 2 (2010). 332â36.
Review of Canadian Copyright: A Citizenâs Guide, by Laura J. Murray and Samuel E. Trosow. Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada 47, no. 1 (2009): 113â16.
Review of The Internationalisation of Copyright Law: Books, Buccaneers and the Black Flag in the Nineteenth Century, by Catherine Seville. Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada 46, no. 1 (2008): 126â29.
âPlumbing the Depths.â Review of Spine, by K.I. Press. Echolocation 4 (2005): 63â66.
- SSHRC Connection Grant (âMaking Well: Poetry Mattersâ), 2019â20
- Co-chercheur du Groupe de recherches et dâĂ©tudes sur le livre au QuĂ©bec (GRĂLQ), 2013â
- SSHRC Connection Grant (âSHARP 2015: The Generation and Regeneration of Booksâ), 2015
- Seventh Annual Leon Katz Memorial Lecture, Friends of the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto (âMajor Contours in the History of the Book in Canadaâ), 2015
- FRQSC, subvention nouveau professeur-chercheurÌę(âExamen du droit dâauteur: pressions lĂ©gales et activitĂ© littĂ©raire au Canadaâ),Ìę2013â15
- Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2011â13
- Canadian Literature (journal), Award for Best Essay, 2010
University of Toronto
Queenâs University (Kingston, ON)
Carleton University (Ottawa, ON)