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

Bibliographic Data

ID19947237
AuthorsAndy Orchard, Simon Keynes
EditorsDonald Scragg, Carole Weinberg
Year2000
Publication date2000-05-01
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueLiterary Appropriations of the Anglo-Saxons from the Thirteenth to the Twentieth Century (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9780511518775
OpenAlexW2091425702
Open LibraryOL34443267M
ISBN9780511518775
LanguageEN
Citations received10

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

Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Contextualization · Epitome · HERO · Interpretation (philosophy) · Literature · Mythology · National identity · Nationalism · Period (music) · Political science · Politics · The Renaissance · Classics · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies · History · Irish and British Studies · Law · Philosophy · Themes in Literature Analysis · 1100-1500 · 449-1066 · anglo-saxon period · English literature · Great britain · History and criticism · history and criticism, middle english · Middle English

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