ENGLISH

Literary Appropriations of the Anglo-Saxons from the Thirteenth to the Twentieth Century

By Donald Scragg , Carole Weinberg

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2000
ISBN
0521632153, 9780521632157, 0521031176, 9780521031172, 9780511518775
LCC
PR151.A53 L57 2000
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
846 kB (865913 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England
Pages
254\253
Topic
Education
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

This book discusses the attitudes toward Anglo-Saxons expressed by English poets, playwrights and novelists from the thirteenth century to the present day. The essays are arranged chronologically, tracing literary responses to the Anglo-Saxons in the medieval period, the Renaissance, and also the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The contributors, who are specialists in their respective fields from Britain and the United States, draw on works that have frequently been ignored or overlooked. They address topical issues such as nationalism, cultural identity, myth, gender and contextualization.

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