New readings on women and early Medieval English literature and culture : cross-disciplinary studies in honour of Helen Damico / edited by Helene Scheck and Christine E. Kozikowski.

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TextSeries: CARMEN monographs and studiesPublisher: Leeds : Arc Humanities Press, [2019]Description: 1 online resource (vi, 294 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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9781641893329
164189332X

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: New readings on women and early Medieval English literature and culture.; Print version:: New readings on women in Anglo-Saxon literature and culture. Cross-disciplinary studies in honour of Helen Damico.DDC classification:

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Contents:

Introduction : feminism and early English studies now / Stacy S. Klein -- Anglo-Saxon women, woman, and womanhood / Gale R. Owen-Crocker -- Beyond Valkyries : drinking horns in Anglo-Saxon women's graves / Carol Neuman de Vegvar -- Embodied literacy : paraliturgical performance in the Life of Saint Leoba / Lisa M.C. Weston -- Imagining the lost libraries of Anglo-Saxon double monasteries / Virginia Blanton -- A textbook stance on marriage : the Versus ad coniugem in Anglo-Saxon England / Janet Schrunk Ericksen -- The circumcision and weaning of Isaac : the cuts that bind / Catherine E. Karkov -- Saintly mothers and mothers of saints / Joyce Hill -- Playing with memories : Emma of Normandy, Cnut, and the spectacle of AElfheah's Corpus / Colleen Dunn -- The missing women of the Beowulf manuscript / Teresa Hooper -- Boundaries embodied : an ecofeminist reading of the Old English Judith / Heide Estes -- Listen to the woman : reading Wealhtheow as stateswoman / Helen Conrad O'Briain -- Reading Grendel's Mother / Jane Chance -- Female agency in early Anglo- Saxon studies : the "nuns of Tavistock" and Elizabeth Elstob / Timothy Graham -- The first female Anglo- Saxon professors / Mary Dockray-Miller.

Summary: New Readings on Women in Anglo-Saxon Literature and Culture' showcases current and original scholarship relating to women in Anglo-Saxon culture and in Anglo-Saxon 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 Anglo-Saxon literature and culture as well as within the modern discipline of Anglo-Saxon 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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Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-281) and indexes.

New Readings on Women in Anglo-Saxon Literature and Culture' showcases current and original scholarship relating to women in Anglo-Saxon culture and in Anglo-Saxon 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 Anglo-Saxon literature and culture as well as within the modern discipline of Anglo-Saxon 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."