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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      21 September 2009
      01 May 2000
      ISBN:
      9780511518775
      9780521632157
      9780521031172
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511518775
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.5kg, 256 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.39kg, 256 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, English Literature: General Interest, Anglo Saxon and Medieval Literature
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England (29)
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    Subjects:
    Literature, English Literature: General Interest, Anglo Saxon and Medieval Literature
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England (29)
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    This book, first published in 2000, discusses the attitudes towards 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. In earlier centuries the Ango-Saxons were often idealized representatives of happier times. Later, they became the epitome of a 'British' race, while an individual Anglo-Saxon, King Alfred, was inflated into a national hero. A final essay suggests the disappearance of any clear sense of the cultural roots of the English in the twentieth century. 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.

    Reviews

    "This book provides us with a much fuller and more colorful sense of people's changing views of Anglo-Saxondom over the centuries." Speculum

    "The volume includes convenient indexes and is carefully documented throughout...consistently high editorial quality...Anglo-Saxonists and others can profiably open this collection at any points of particular interest, or they can read it straight through for a well-guided topical excursion through eight centuries of English literature." Carl T. Berkhout, Journal of English and Germanic Philology

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