Beowulf: The Critical Heritage (Critical Heritage Ser.)

Synopsis

Beowulf is the oldest and most complete epic poem in any non-Classical European language. Our only manuscript, written in Old English, dates from close to the year 1000. However, the poem remained effectively unknown even to scholars until the year 1815, when it was first published in Copenhagen. This impressive volume selects over one hundred works of critical commentary from the vast body of scholarship on Beowulf - including English translations from German, Danish, Latin and Spanish - from the poem's first mention in 1705 to the Anglophone scholarship of the early twentieth century. Tom Shippey provides both a contextual introduction and a guide to the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century scholarship which generated these Beowulf commentaries. The book is a vital document for the study of one of the major texts of 'the Northern renaissance', in which completely unknown poems and even languages were brought to the attention first of the learned world and then of popular culture. It also acts as a valuable guide to the development of nationalist and racist sentiment, beginning romantically and ending with World War and attempted genocide.

Copyright:

1998

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9781134970933

Related ISBNs:

9780203979457, 9781138009103, 9781138009103, 9780415029704, 9780415029704

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Date of Addition:

06/09/20

Copyrighted By:

T. A. Shippey, Andreas Haarder

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Reference, Literature and Fiction, Language Arts

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This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Andreas Haarder

Edited by:

T A Shippey

Edited by:

T. A. Shippey