Chris Jones

Fossil Poetry

Anglo-Saxon and Linguistic Nativism in Nineteenth-Century Poetry

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Produktbeschreibung

Fossil Poetry provides the first book-length overview of the place of Anglo-Saxon in nineteenth-century poetry in English. It addresses the use and role of Anglo-Saxon as a resource by Romantic and Victorian poets in their own compositions, as well as the construction and 'invention' of Anglo-Saxon in and by nineteenth-century poetry.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 703g
• ISBN-13: 9780198824527
• ISBN-10: 0198824521
• Artikelnr.: 51389877

Autorenporträt

Chris Jones teaches at the University of St Andrews. His previous book Strange Likeness: The Use of Old English in Twentieth-century Poetry (OUP, 2006) was shortlisted for the ESSE best book prize of 2007.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction: Fossil or Root? Anglo-Saxon and the Origin and Descent
of English Poetry
* 1: 'Barbarous Hymn': The Extinction of Early Saxon Poetry in the
Romantic Imagination
* 2: The Constant Roots of English song: Anglo-Saxon and Essential
Englishness
* Slaying the Jabberwock: Lewis Carroll's Parody of Anglo-Saxonism
* 3: Fossil Poems and the New Philology
* 4: 'A vastly superior thing': The Fossil Poetry of Gerard Hopkins
* 5: 'From scarped cliff and quarried stone a thousand types gone':
Tennyson's Anglo-Saxon
* Conclusion and Coda: Fossil Poetry into the Twentieth Century
* Bibliography