Title The aesthetics of nostalgia : historical representation in Old English verse / Renée R. Trilling

Published Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, ©2009 (Saint-Lazare, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, 2010)

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 296 pages) Series Toronto Anglo-Saxon series Toronto Anglo-Saxon series. Contents Introduction. Form of History -- 1. Art and History in Old English Heroic Poetry -- 2. In Principio: Origins of the Present in Anglo-Saxon Biblical Verse -- 3. Verse Memorials and the Viking Conflict -- 4. Poetic Memory: The Canonical Verse of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle -- 5. Transitional Verse in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: Changing the Shape of History -- Conclusion: The Past in the Present Summary Aesthetics of Nostalgia reads Anglo-Saxon historical verse in terms of how its aesthetic form interacted with the culture and politics of the period Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-286) and index Notes Includes some text in Latin and Old English Subject English poetry -- Old English, ca. 450-1100 -- History and criticism Literature and history -- England Nostalgia in literature. History in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM -- Medieval. LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. English poetry -- Old English History in literature Literature and history Nostalgia in literature England Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9781442697935 1442697938

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