Anglo-Saxon culture and the modern imagination / edited by David Clark and Nicholas Perkins.

Other author Clark, David, 1977-
Other author Perkins, Nicholas.
Format Book
Publication InfoCambridge : D.S. Brewer, 2010.
Descriptionxiv, 283 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
Subjects

SeriesMedievalism, 2043-8230 ; v. 1
Medievalism ; v. 1. UNAUTHORIZED
Contents Introduction / Nicholas Perkins and David Clark -- From Heorot to Hollywood : Beowulf in its third millennium / Chris Jones -- Priming the poets : the making of Henry Sweet's Anglo-Saxon reader / Mark 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 A. Lees -- Boom : seeing Beowulf in pictures and print / Siân 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.
Summary The Anglo-Saxon world continues to be a source of fascination in modern culture. Its manifestations in a variety of media are here examined.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2010549155
ISBN9781843842514 (hbk.)
ISBN1843842513 (hbk.)