New Readings on Women and Early Medieval English Literature and Culture

Cross-Disciplinary Studies in Honour of Helen Damico

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

AvHelene Scheck,Christine E. Kozikowski,State University of New York at Albany) Scheck, Helene (Associate Professor of English,College of the Bahamas) Kozikowski, Christine E. (Assistant Professor of English,Christine E Kozikowski

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New Readings on Women and Early Medieval English Literature and Culture showcases current and original scholarship relating to women in Early Medieval English culture and in Early Medieval English studies and promises to stimulate new work in those areas. Honouring the eminent scholar Helen Damico as well as the seminal volume she edited almost thirty years ago with Alexandra Hennessy Olsen, the essays in this volume remind us that feminist inquiry is as vital and robust as it was then. Recognizing the plasticity of gender structures, roles, and relations in Early Medieval English literature and culture as well as within the modern discipline of Early Medieval English Studies, the essays reveal pluralities of gender bequeathed to us and encourage us to rethink power/gender dynamics in our present moment. As the Introduction explains, the essays in this collection offer new paths into an increasingly rich area of study. Their diversity and freshness, along with their archival and methodological range, reveal a robust commitment to feminist interdisciplinarity, while their refusal of any grand master narrative takes seriously the complexity of Anglo-Saxon women’s lives, as well as the elusive relationship between history, literary symbols, textual representations, and social and cultural practices.

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Utgivningsdatum2019-08-12
Mått156 x 234 x 25 mm
Vikt576 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieCARMEN Monographs and Studies
Antal sidor302
FörlagArc Humanities Press
ISBN9781641893305

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IntroductionFeminism and Anglo-Saxon Studies, Now - Stacy S. KleinPart I: Literacy and Material CultureAnglo-Saxon Women, Woman, and Womanhood - Gale R. Owen-CrockerBeyond Valkyries: Drinking Horns in Anglo-Saxon Women’s Graves - Carol Neuman de VegvarEmbodied Literacy: Paraliturgical Performance in the Life of Saint Leoba - Lisa M. C. WestonImagining the Lost Libraries of the Anglo-Saxon Double Monasteries - Virginia BlantonPart II: Engendering Marriage and FamilyA Textbook Stance on Marriage: The Versus ad coniugem in Anglo-Saxon England - Janet Schrunk EricksenThe Circumcision and Weaning of Isaac: The Cuts that Bind - Catherine E. KarkovSaintly Mothers and Mothers of Saints - Joyce HillPlaying with Memories: Emma of Normandy, Cnut, and the Spectacle of Ælfheah’s Corpus - Colleen DunnPart III: Women of the Beowulf ManuscriptThe Missing Women of the Beowulf-Manuscript - Teresa HooperBoundaries Embodied: An Ecofeminist Reading of the Old English Judith - Heide EstesListen to the Woman: Reading Wealhþeow as Stateswoman - Helen Conrad O'BriainReading Grendel's Mother - Jane ChancePart IV: Women and Anglo-Saxon StudiesFemale Agency in Early Anglo-Saxon Studies: The “Nuns of Tavistock” and Elizabeth Elstob - Timothy GrahamThe First Female Anglo-Saxon Professors - Mary Dockray-Miller

Helen Damico and Alexandra Hennessey Olsen’s groundbreaking edited volume NewReadings on Women in Old English Literature appeared in 1991, offering a “revisioning” of Old English literature and influencing the work of many feminist scholars. A 2016 roundtable at the Medieval Congress of Kalamazoo revisited the collection, and, along with two other sessions in honor of Damico, spawned the current volume, which continues where the earlier one left off.[...] Although much has changed in the field of Old English studies since 1991, this volume illustrates the interesting and important work that remains in understanding women’s significance in both the historical record and the academy. Collectively, the essays serve as a fitting tribute to the much-esteemed Damico, who passed away in 2020, and attest to the breadth and depth of her interests, scholarship, and influence.