Old English Medievalism

Rachel A. Fletcher holds a Ph.D. in English Language and Linguistics from the University of Glasgow. She has published on the history of Old English lexicography, Old English scholarship in the Early Modern period, and J. R. R. Tolkien's work on the Oxford English Dictionary. THIJS PORCK is senior lecturer of Medieval English at Leiden University. Oliver M. Traxel is Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Stavanger. He has a Ph.D. in Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic from the University of Cambridge and habilitated in English Philology at the University of Münster. He has published widely on the representation of past language stages in the modern world. Rachel A. Fletcher holds a Ph.D. in English Language and Linguistics from the University of Glasgow. She has published on the history of Old English lexicography, Old English scholarship in the Early Modern period, and J. R. R. Tolkien's work on the Oxford English Dictionary. Oliver M. Traxel is Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Stavanger. He has a Ph.D. in Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic from the University of Cambridge and habilitated in English Philology at the University of Münster. He has published widely on the representation of past language stages in the modern world. THIJS PORCK is senior lecturer of Medieval English at Leiden University. M.J. TOSWELL is a Professor at theUniversity of Western Ontario. Karen Louise Jolly is professor of medieval European history at the University of Hawai'i Mānoa. Her research focuses on popular religion, marginal manuscripts, and re-imagining early medieval Britain through historical fiction.

• List of IllustrationsList of Contributors AcknowledgementsList of Abbreviations Early Medieval English in the Modern Age: An Introduction to Old English Medievalism - Rachel A. Fletcher, Thijs Porck and Oliver M. Traxel1 Reinventing, Reimagining and Recontextualizing Old English Poetry 1 Old English as a Playground for Poets? W. H. Auden, Christopher Patton and Jeramy Dodds - M. J. Toswell2 'Abroad in One's Own Tradition': Old English Poetry and Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows (1908) - Victoria Condie 3 Wulf and Eadwacer in 1830 New Zealand: Anglo-Saxonism and Postcolonialism in Hamish Clayton's Wulf (2011) - Martina Marzullo 4 Old English Poetry and Sutton Hoo on Display: Creating 'the Anglo-Saxon' in Museums - Fran Allfrey II Invoking Early Medieval England and Its Language in Historical Fiction5 Creating a 'Shadow Tongue': The Merging of Two Language Stages - Oliver M. Traxel 6 At the Threshold of the Inarticulate: The Reception of 'Made-up' English in Paul Kingsnorth's The Wake (2014) - Judy Kendall7 Reimagining Early Medieval Britain: The Language of Spirituality - Karen Louise Jolly 8 Historical Friction: Constructing Pastness in Fiction Set in Eleventh-Century England - James Aitcheson III Translating and Composing in Neo-Old English9 Ge wordful, ge wordig: Translating Modern Texts into Old English - Fritz Kemmler 10 Fruit, Fat and Fermentation: Food and Drink in Peter Baker's (Neo-) Old English Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Denis Ferhatović11 The Fall of the King and the Composition of Neo-Old English Verse - Rafael J. Pascual IV Approaching Old English and Neo-Old English in the Classroom12 Mitchell & Robinson's Medievalism: Echoes of Empire in the History of Old English Pedagogy - Joana Blanquer, Donna Beth Ellard, Emma Hitchcock and Erin E. Sweany13 The Magic of Telecinematic Neo-Old English in University Teaching - Gabriele Knappe Bibliography Index

This book offers a series of diverse essays in clear dialogue with each other. They reflect on Old English study in its recent cultural contexts, making an articulate case for more critical assessment of the ideological legacies entangled with the field. They also offer practical, pedagogical guidance. This book could readily and usefully be integrated with a course on Old English-either as contextual reading for advanced students or as the basis of whole lessons that teach Old English through lenses more familiar to modern students.