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New Readings on Women in Anglo-Saxon Literature and Culture

Showcases current and original scholarship relating to women and Early Medieval English culture and Early Medieval English studies and promises to stimulate new work in those areas.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Scheck, Helene
Otros Autores: Kozikowski, Christine
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Arc Humanities Press, 2019.
Colección:CARMEN monographs and studies.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Half-title; Series information; Title page; Copyright information; Table of contents; List of figures; List of abbreviations; Part I. Literacy and Material Culture; Chapter 1. Anglo-Saxon Women, Woman, and Womanhood; Women; Woman; Womanhood; Chapter 2. Beyond Valkyries; Chapter 3. Embodied Literacy; Chapter 4. Imagining the Lost Libraries of Anglo-Saxon Double Monasteries; Part II. Engendering Marriage and Family; Chapter 5. A Textbook Stance on Marriage; Chapter 6. The Circumcision and Weaning of Isaac; The Cut that Binds; The Cut that Severs
  • Chapter 7. Saintly Mothers and Mothers of SaintsChapter 8. Playing with Memories; Part III. Women of the Beowulf Manuscript; Chapter 9. The Missing Women of the Beowulf Manuscript; Chapter 10. Boundaries Embodied; Geographical Boundaries; Porous Boundaries: Human, Animal, Object; Temporal Boundaries; Intersectional Feminisms; Conclusion; Chapter 11. Listen to the Woman; Chapter 12. Reading Grendel's Mother; Part IV. Women and Anglo-Saxon Studies; Chapter 13. Female Agency in Early Anglo-Saxon Studies; Old English at Tavistock?; Elizabeth Elstob and Her Transcripts of Old English Materials
  • Elizabeth Elstob and the Textus RoffensisThe Planned Edition of Ælfric's Catholic Homilies; Chapter 14. The First Female Anglo-Saxon Professors; Select Bibliography; Index of Manuscripts; General Index