This essential overview of the large body of Beowulf criticism takes a chronological approach, moving from eighteenth-century reactions to twenty-first-century responses. Jodi-Anne George charts the changes in critical trends and also discusses...
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This essential overview of the large body of Beowulf criticism takes a chronological approach, moving from eighteenth-century reactions to twenty-first-century responses. Jodi-Anne George charts the changes in critical trends and also discusses popular culture's continuing fascination with the Old English poem. Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- A Note about Dates -- Introduction: Hwæt! -- CHAPTER ONE: 'Rude Beginning': 1705-1899 -- CHAPTER TWO: 'Conflicting Babel': 1900-1931 -- CHAPTER THREE: The Monsters Meet the Critics: the 1930s and 1940s -- CHAPTER FOUR: The Debates Continue: the 1950s and 1960s -- CHAPTER FIVE: Stock-taking: the 1970s -- CHAPTER SIX: Critics on the Crest of a Wave: the 1980s -- CHAPTER SEVEN: An Embarrassment of Critical Riches: the 1990s to the present -- CHAPTER EIGHT: Beowulf in Popular Culture -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.
This essential overview of the large body of Beowulf criticism takes a chronological approach, moving from eighteenth-century reactions to twenty-first-century responses. Jodi-Anne George charts the changes in critical trends and also discusses...
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This essential overview of the large body of Beowulf criticism takes a chronological approach, moving from eighteenth-century reactions to twenty-first-century responses. Jodi-Anne George charts the changes in critical trends and also discusses popular culture's continuing fascination with the Old English poem
