Shari Horner is Assistant Professor of English at Shippensburg University.

• Acknowledgments Dedication Introduction The Discourse of Enclosure: Inscribing the Feminine in Old English LiteratureChapter One Looking Into Enclosure in the Old English Female LyricsChapter Two Voices From the Margins: Women and Textual Enclosure in BeowulfChapter Three Textual/Sexual Violence: The Old English Juliana and the Anglo-Saxon Female ReaderChapter Four Bodies and Borders: The Hermeneutics ofEnclosure in Ælfric's Lives of Female SaintsConclusion Christina of Markyate and Legacies of EnclosureBibliographyIndex

"This is an important and inventive book. Horner uses a supple argument about the discourse of female enclosure—enclosure in a monastery, enclosure in the body, and enclosure in a text—to link a feminist reading of four Old English works not usually read together: the heroic epic Beowulf, the female-voiced Old English elegies, a verse saint's life, and female portions of the Lives of Saints by Ælfric. The result is an elegant and informative feminist reading of all these works and a developed methodology that sheds light on women's experiences as readers of Old English texts and as subjects within those texts." — Jonathan Wilcox, editor of Humour in Anglo-Saxon Literature