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OverviewNew 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Helene Scheck (Associate Professor of English, State University of New York at Albany) , Christine E. Kozikowski (Assistant Professor of English, College of the Bahamas)Publisher: Arc Humanities Press Imprint: Arc Humanities Press Edition: New edition Weight: 0.463kg ISBN: 9781641893305ISBN 10: 1641893303 Pages: 302 Publication Date: 12 August 2019 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction Feminism and Anglo-Saxon Studies, Now - Stacy S. Klein Part I: Literacy and Material Culture 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 the Anglo-Saxon Double Monasteries - Virginia Blanton Part II: Engendering Marriage and Family 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 Part III: Women of the Beowulf Manuscript 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 Part IV: Women and Anglo-Saxon Studies Female Agency in Early Anglo-Saxon Studies: The Nuns of Tavistock and Elizabeth Elstob - Timothy Graham The First Female Anglo-Saxon Professors - Mary Dockray-MillerReviewsHelen 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. -- Alison Gulley * Speculum 96, no. 3 (2021): 882-83 * 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. -- Alison Gulley * Speculum 96, no. 3 (2021): 882-83 * [The collection's] reflective nature makes it incredibly self-aware and Klein's introduction positions it well within a complex and ever-changing theoretical context. Feminist and gender theory in medieval studies has changed much in recent decades and this collection not only acknowledges that but also validates and showcases the incredible diversity and value of this field of study going forward. -- Cassandra Schilling * Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association, 17, no. 2 (2021): 240-41 * Author InformationHelene Scheck is Associate Professor of English at the State University of New York at Albany. Christine E. Kozikowski is Assistant Professor of English at the College of the Bahamas. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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