A History of Old English Literature

Herausgegeben von Fulk, Robert D.; Cain, Christopher M.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This introduction responds to the renewed historicism in medieval studies, focusing on the production and reception of Old English texts, and on their relation to Anglo-Saxon history and culture. It covers a wide range of genres, from riddles and cryptograms to allegory, liturgical texts, and romance, without neglecting such mainstays of Old English studies as lyric poetry and heroic legend. Into this coverage it also integrates discussion of Anglo-Latin texts which are crucial to understanding the development of Old English literature. This new edition incorporates extensive reference to scholarship of the past decade and adds new chapters on Anglo-Saxon manuscripts and incidental and marginal texts, while expanding coverage in the remaining chapters. It concludes with a retrospective outline of the reception of Anglo-Saxon literature and culture in subsequent periods.

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This revised edition of A History of Old English Literature draws extensively on the latest scholarship to have evolved over the last decade. The text incorporates additional material throughout, including two new chapters on Anglo-Saxon manuscripts and incidental and marginal texts.

This revised edition responds to the renewed historicism in medieval studies
Provides wide-ranging coverage, including Anglo-Latin literature as well as non-canonical writings
Includes new chapters on manuscripts and on marginal and incidental texts
Incorporates expanded coverage of legal texts and scientific and scholastic texts, now treated in separate chapters
Demonstrates that the field of Anglo-Saxon studies is uniquely placed to contribute to current literary debates

Produktdetails

• Blackwell History of Literature .
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 1W118453230
• 2. Aufl.
• Seitenzahl: 504
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 878g
• ISBN-13: 9781118453230
• ISBN-10: 1118453239
• Artikelnr.: 37705273

Autorenporträt

The Authors R. D. Fulk is Class of 1964 Chancellor's Professor of English at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is the author of, among others, The Beowulf Manuscript (2010) and An Introduction to Middle English (2012), and co-author or editor of Eight Old English Poems (2001), A Grammar of Old English, Volume 2: Morphology (2011), Klaeber's Beowulf and the Fight at Finnsburg (4th edition, 2008), and The Old English Canons of Theodore (2012). Christopher M. Cain is an associate professor of English at Towson University in Towson, Maryland. He has published on Old English and Anglo-Latin in Studies in Philology, JEGP, The Review of English Studies, and Philological Quarterly, among others. He is the co-editor (with Geoffrey Russom) of Studies in the History of the English Language III--Managing Chaos: Strategies for Identifying Change in English (2007), and is a contributor to The Year's Work in Old English Studies. Rachel S. Anderson is Associate Professor of English at Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations vi Preface to the First Edition (2003) vii Preface to
the Second Edition ix Abbreviations x Introduction Anglo-Saxon England and
Its Literature: A Social History 1 1 The Chronology and Varieties of Old
English Literature 42 2 Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts 58 3 Literature of the
Alfredian Period 83 4 Homilies 112 5 Saints' Legends (Rachel S. Anderson)
133 6 Biblical Literature 157 7 Liturgical and Devotional Texts 177 8 Legal
Texts 211 9 Scientific and Scholastic Texts 227 10 Wisdom Literature and
Lyric Poetry 241 11 Germanic Legend and Heroic Lay 278 12 Additions,
Annotations, and Marginalia 329 Conclusion Making Old English New:
Anglo-Saxonism and the Cultural Work of Old English Literature 354 Works
Cited 367 Index 481

Rezensionen

"Revised to incorporate the latest developments, A History of Old English Literature remains as indispensable as ever. Its scholarship is up to date, its range comprehensive, its writing animated by a critical intelligence throughout. A new chapter on manuscripts, for example, responds to the field's recent turn to material contexts, and that attention begets a second new chapter on marginal texts like charms and cryptograms. An expanded discussion of legal texts, an updated bibliography, and many localized revisions will benefit everyone from beginning students to seasoned scholars." -- Daniel Donoghue, Harvard University

"A new generation of students and their professors will undoubtedly apprecite the currency of what has proven to be a widely respected, comprehensive historical treatment of Old English literature." (Choice, 1 December 2013)