Handbook of Anglo-Saxon Studies

Jacqueline Stodnick is Associate Professor of English at the University of Texas at Arlington, USA, where she teaches the history of the English language, Old English, and the history of British literature.  She has published articles on lists, the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, and hagiography, focusing in particular on English cultural identity. Her current work explores Anglo-Saxon notions of the body.Renée R. Trilling is Associate Professor of English at the University of Illinois, USA.  She is the author of The Aesthetics of Nostalgia: Historical Representation in Old English Verse (2009), as well as articles on Beowulf, Wulfstan the Homilist, and Anglo-Saxon historiography.  Her current work draws on recent trends in neuroscience and related fields to explore the role of materiality in Anglo-Saxon notions of subjectivity.

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• List of Figures vii Notes on Contributors ixAcknowledgments xiiiIntroduction 1Jacqueline Stodnick and Rene´e R. Trilling1 Borders 9Elaine Treharne2 Disability 23Christina Lee3 Gender 39Stacy S. Klein4 Hegemony 55Robin Norris5 Historicism 69Scott Thompson Smith6 Law and Justice 85Andrew Rabin7 Literacy 99R. M. Liuzza8 Masculinity 115D. M. Hadley9 Media 133Martin K. Foys10 Postcolonial 149Catherine E. Karkov11 Race and Ethnicity 165Stephen Harris12 Sex and Sexuality 181Carol Braun Pasternack13 Space and Place 197Andrew Scheil14 Time 215Kathleen Davis15 Violence 235Mary Louise Fellows16 Visual Culture 251Benjamin C. Withers17 Women 265Helene Scheck and Virginia Blanton18 Writing 281E. J. ChristieIndex 295