Renée R. Trilling is an assistant professor in the Department of English at the University of Illinois.

‘The Aesthetics of Nostalgia is first rate, erudite criticism that will push the field of Anglo-Saxon literary studies in exciting new directions.’ - Andrew Scheil, Review of English Studies: vol 62:254:2011 ‘Trilling writes well and what she writes is highly intelligent. That makes her book not only worth reading, but worth debating and arguing with … Trilling’s deeply felt book always teaches the reader to think afresh about an ancient literature.’ - E.G. Stanley, Notes and Queries: vol58:01:11 'In this well researched book Trilling aims to explore the artistic impetus behind the representation of the past in Old English verse by assembling aesthetic record and demonstrating the use of nostalgia as a tool in Anglo-Saxon historical texts...The book is thought provoking, up-to-date and extensively referenced.' - Helen Appleton (Parergon: vol28:01:2011) 'Trilling has absorbed most of the recent scholarship on a wide range of literary, cultural, and theoretical topics and woven it into a synthesis so gracious that her highly original thinking is often indistinguishable from wide study. It provided a week of highly stimulating reading that will change how I read Old English poetry.' - James W. Earl (Speculum; vol. 56:03:2011) ‘Elegantly written and unwaveringly intelligent, Trilling’s work recognizes the way we think about Anglo-Saxon literature and culture…It sets the terms and establishes the terrain of a discussion that will certainly be productive for many years to come.’- Roy M. Liuzza (Modern Philology; vol 110:04:2013)

• AbbreviationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Art and History in Old English Heroic Poetry2. In Principio: Origin of the Present in Anglo-Saxon Biblical Verse3. Verse Memorials and the Viking Conquest4. Poetic Memory: The Canonical Verse of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle5. Transitional Verse in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: Changing the Shape of HistoryConclusionBibliography

Renée R. Trilling is an assistant professor in the Department of English at the University of Illinois.

‘The Aesthetics of Nostalgia is first rate, erudite criticism that will push the field of Anglo-Saxon literary studies in exciting new directions.’ - Andrew Scheil, Review of English Studies: vol 62:254:2011 ‘Trilling writes well and what she writes is highly intelligent. That makes her book not only worth reading, but worth debating and arguing with … Trilling’s deeply felt book always teaches the reader to think afresh about an ancient literature.’ - E.G. Stanley, Notes and Queries: vol58:01:11 'In this well researched book Trilling aims to explore the artistic impetus behind the representation of the past in Old English verse by assembling aesthetic record and demonstrating the use of nostalgia as a tool in Anglo-Saxon historical texts...The book is thought provoking, up-to-date and extensively referenced.' - Helen Appleton (Parergon: vol28:01:2011) 'Trilling has absorbed most of the recent scholarship on a wide range of literary, cultural, and theoretical topics and woven it into a synthesis so gracious that her highly original thinking is often indistinguishable from wide study. It provided a week of highly stimulating reading that will change how I read Old English poetry.' - James W. Earl (Speculum; vol. 56:03:2011) ‘Elegantly written and unwaveringly intelligent, Trilling’s work recognizes the way we think about Anglo-Saxon literature and culture…It sets the terms and establishes the terrain of a discussion that will certainly be productive for many years to come.’- Roy M. Liuzza (Modern Philology; vol 110:04:2013)

• AbbreviationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Art and History in Old English Heroic Poetry2. In Principio: Origin of the Present in Anglo-Saxon Biblical Verse3. Verse Memorials and the Viking Conquest4. Poetic Memory: The Canonical Verse of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle5. Transitional Verse in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: Changing the Shape of HistoryConclusionBibliography

Renée R. Trilling is an assistant professor in the Department of English at the University of Illinois.

‘The Aesthetics of Nostalgia is first rate, erudite criticism that will push the field of Anglo-Saxon literary studies in exciting new directions.’ - Andrew Scheil, Review of English Studies: vol 62:254:2011 ‘Trilling writes well and what she writes is highly intelligent. That makes her book not only worth reading, but worth debating and arguing with … Trilling’s deeply felt book always teaches the reader to think afresh about an ancient literature.’ - E.G. Stanley, Notes and Queries: vol58:01:11 'In this well researched book Trilling aims to explore the artistic impetus behind the representation of the past in Old English verse by assembling aesthetic record and demonstrating the use of nostalgia as a tool in Anglo-Saxon historical texts...The book is thought provoking, up-to-date and extensively referenced.' - Helen Appleton (Parergon: vol28:01:2011) 'Trilling has absorbed most of the recent scholarship on a wide range of literary, cultural, and theoretical topics and woven it into a synthesis so gracious that her highly original thinking is often indistinguishable from wide study. It provided a week of highly stimulating reading that will change how I read Old English poetry.' - James W. Earl (Speculum; vol. 56:03:2011) ‘Elegantly written and unwaveringly intelligent, Trilling’s work recognizes the way we think about Anglo-Saxon literature and culture…It sets the terms and establishes the terrain of a discussion that will certainly be productive for many years to come.’- Roy M. Liuzza (Modern Philology; vol 110:04:2013)

• AbbreviationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Art and History in Old English Heroic Poetry2. In Principio: Origin of the Present in Anglo-Saxon Biblical Verse3. Verse Memorials and the Viking Conquest4. Poetic Memory: The Canonical Verse of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle5. Transitional Verse in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: Changing the Shape of HistoryConclusionBibliography