316 Pages
by
Routledge
316 Pages
by
Routledge
298 Pages
by
Routledge
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What makes English literature English ? This question inspires Stephen Harris's wide-ranging study of Old English literature. From Bede in the eighth century to Geoffrey of Monmouth in the twelfth, Harris explores the intersections of race and literature before the rise of imagined communities. Harris examines possible configurations of communities, illustrating dominant literary metaphors of race... Read more
TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgments Abbreviations and Short Titles Chapter One: Voices of Race Chapter Two: The Election of the Angles Chapter Three: King Alfred's Christendom Chapter Four: Wulfstan and the Law Chapter Five: Woden and Troy Chapter Six: Ethnogenesis and The Battle of Maldon Notes Bibliography Index
Biography
Stephen Harris teaches Old English at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He has published on the Venerable Bede and on King Alfred, most recently in Criticism and the Journal of English and Germanic Philology.
