Race and Ethnicity in Anglo-Saxon Literature

Informationen zum Autor Stephen Harris teaches Old English at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He has published on the Venerable Bede and on King Alfred, most recently in Criticism and the Journal of English and Germanic Philology . Klappentext What makes English literature English? This question inspires Stephen Harris's wide-ranging study of Old English literature. From Bede in the eighth century to Geoffrey of Monmouth in the twelfth, Harris explores the intersections of race and literature before the rise of imagined communities. Zusammenfassung What makes English literature English? This question inspires Stephen Harris's wide-ranging study of Old English literature. From Bede in the eighth century to Geoffrey of Monmouth in the twelfth, Harris explores the intersections of race and literature before the rise of imagined communities. Inhaltsverzeichnis TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgments Abbreviations and Short Titles Chapter One: Voices of Race Chapter Two: The Election of the Angles Chapter Three: King Alfred's Christendom Chapter Four: Wulfstan and the Law Chapter Five: Woden and Troy Chapter Six: Ethnogenesis and The Battle of Maldon Notes Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Stephen Harris, Stephen J. Harris, Stephen Harris
• Publisher: Routledge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.11.2003
• EAN: 9780415968720
• ISBN: 978-0-415-96872-0
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 235 mm x 24 mm
• Series: Studies in Medieval History and Culture; Studies in Medieval History and Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, Literature: history & criticism, Literature: history and criticism, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Ethnic studies / Ethnicity