UID:
almafu_9959327407402883
Format:
1 online resource
Edition:
Second edition.
ISBN:
9781118441121
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1118441125
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9781118441114
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1118441117
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9781118441152
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111844115X
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9781118441138
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1118441133
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1118453239
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9781118453230
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1118441141
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9781118441145
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1299277594
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9781299277595
Series Statement:
Blackwell histories of literature
Content:
This revised edition of A History of Old English Literature draws extensively on the latest scholarship to have evolved over the last decade. The text incorporates additional material throughout, including two new chapters on Anglo-Saxon manuscripts and incidental and marginal texts. This revised edition responds to the renewed historicism in medieval studiesProvides wide-ranging coverage, including Anglo-Latin literature as well as non-canonical writingsIncludes new chapters on manuscripts and on marginal and incidental textsIncorporates expande.
Note:
Introduction: Anglo-Saxon England and its literature: a social history -- The chronology and varieties of Old English literature -- Anglo-Saxon manuscripts -- Literature of the Alfredian period -- Homilies -- Saints? legends (Rachel S. Anderson) -- Biblical literature -- Liturgical and devotional texts -- Legal texts -- Scientific and scholastic texts -- Wisdom literature and lyric poetry -- Germanic legend and heroic lay -- Additions, annotations, and marginalia -- Conclusion: Making Old English new: Anglo-Saxonism and the cultural work of Old English literature.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Fulk, R.D. (Robert Dennis). History of Old English literature. Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, 2013 ISBN 9781118453230
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781118441138
URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781118441138
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