{"product_id":"9781118453230","title":"A History of Old English Literature","description":"\u003ch3\u003eBlackwell History of Literature\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch1\u003eA History of Old English Literature\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch3\u003eRobert D. Fulk | Christopher M. Cain\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eLiterary Criticism \/ European \/ English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eA HISTORY OF OLD ENGLISH LITERATURE\u003c\/b\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA History of Old English Literature\u003c\/i\u003e has been significantly revised to provide an unequivocal response to the renewed historicism in medieval studies. Focusing on the production and reception of Old English texts and on their relation to Anglo-Saxon history and culture, this new edition covers an exceptionally broad array of genres. These range from riddles and cryptograms to allegory, liturgical texts, and romance, as well as lyric poetry and heroic legend. The authors also integrate discussions of Anglo-Latin texts, crucial to understanding the development of Old English literature. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis second edition incorporates extensive reference to scholarship that has evolved over the past decade, with new chapters on both Anglo-Saxon manuscripts and on incidental and marginal texts. There is expanded treatment throughout, including increased coverage of legal texts and scientific and scholastic texts. The book concludes with a retrospective outline of the reception of Anglo-Saxon literature and culture in subsequent periods.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Authors\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eR. D. Fulk \u003c\/b\u003eis Class of 1964 Chancellor’s Professor of English at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is the author of, among others, \u003ci\u003eThe Beowulf Manuscript\u003c\/i\u003e (2010) and\u003ci\u003e An Introduction to Middle English\u003c\/i\u003e (2012), and co-author or editor of\u003ci\u003e Eight Old English Poems\u003c\/i\u003e (2001), \u003ci\u003eA Grammar of Old English, Volume 2: Morphology\u003c\/i\u003e (2011),\u003ci\u003e Klaeber’s Beowulf and the Fight at Finnsburg \u003c\/i\u003e(4th edition, 2008), and \u003ci\u003eThe Old English Canons of Theodore \u003c\/i\u003e(2012).  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChristopher M. Cain\u003c\/b\u003e is an associate professor of English at Towson University in Towson, Maryland. He has published on Old English and Anglo-Latin in \u003ci\u003eStudies in Philology, JEGP, The Review of English Studies, and Philological Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, among others. He is the co-editor (with Geoffrey Russom) of \u003ci\u003eStudies in the History of the English Language III—Managing Chaos: Strategies for Identifying Change in English\u003c\/i\u003e (2007), and is a contributor to \u003ci\u003eThe Year’s Work in Old English Studies.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRachel S. Anderson \u003c\/b\u003eis Associate Professor of English at Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids, Michigan. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e04 June 2013\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWiley\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWiley-Blackwell\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9781118453230\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e504\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e27.52\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Wiley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44379124269196,"sku":"9781118453230","price":152.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9781118453230_7aed95d7-89f2-4f37-8171-c34163905a69.jpg?v=1780106275","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9781118453230","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}