Anglo-Saxon Culture and the Modern Imagination

The essays here engage with the ways in which the Anglo-Saxons and their literature have been received, confronted, and re-envisioned in the modern imagination.

List of contents

Introduction - Nicholas Perkins and David Clark
From Heorot to Hollywood: Beowulf in its Third Millennium - C S Jones
Priming the Poets: the Making of Henry Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Reader - M Atherton
Owed to Both Sides: W.H. Auden's Double Debt to the Literature of the North - Heather O'Donoghue
Writing for an Anglo-Saxon Audience in the Twentieth Century: J.R.R. Tolkien's Old English Chronicles - Maria Artamonova
'Wounded men and wounded trees': David Jones and the Anglo-Saxon Culture Tangle - Anna Johnson
Basil Bunting, Briggflatts, Lindisfarne, and Anglo-Saxon Interlace - Clare Lees
BOOM: Seeing Beowulf in Pictures and Print - Sian Echard
Window in the Wall: Looking for Grand Opera in John Gardner's Grendel - Allen J. Frantzen
Re-placing Masculinity: The DC Comics Beowulf Series and its Context, 1975-6 - Catherine A M Clarke
P.D. James Reads Beowulf - John Halbrooks
Ban Welondes: Wayland Smith in Popular Culture - Maria Sachiko Cecire
'Overlord of the M5': The Superlative Structure of Sovereignty in Geoffrey Hill's Mercian Hymns - Hannah J. Crawforth
The Absent Anglo-Saxon Past in Ted Hughes's Elmet - Joshua Davies
Resurrecting Saxon Things: Peter Reading, 'species decline', and Old English Poetry - Rebecca Anne Barr

Product details

• Authors: David Clark
• Assisted by: David Clark (Editor), Nicholas Perkins (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.10.2010
• EAN: 9781843842514
• ISBN: 978-1-84384-251-4
• No. of pages: 302
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 234 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 798 g
• Series: Medievalism
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, Literature - Classics / Criticism