<I>New Readings on Women and Early Medieval English Literature and Culture</I> 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. 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.
- Cover
- Half-title
- Series information
- Title page
- Copyright information
- Table of contents
- List of figures
- List of abbreviations
- Part I. Literacy and Material Culture
- Chapter 1. Anglo-Saxon Women, Woman, and Womanhood
- Chapter 2. Beyond Valkyries
- Chapter 3. Embodied Literacy
- Chapter 4. Imagining the Lost Libraries of Anglo-Saxon Double Monasteries
- Part II. Engendering Marriage and Family
- Chapter 5. A Textbook Stance on Marriage
- Chapter 6. The Circumcision and Weaning of Isaac
- The Cut that Binds
- The Cut that Severs
- Chapter 7. Saintly Mothers and Mothers of Saints
- Chapter 8. Playing with Memories
- Part III. Women of the Beowulf Manuscript
- Chapter 9. The Missing Women of the Beowulf Manuscript
- Chapter 10. Boundaries Embodied
- Geographical Boundaries
- Porous Boundaries: Human, Animal, Object
- Temporal Boundaries
- Intersectional Feminisms
- Conclusion
- Chapter 11. Listen to the Woman
- Chapter 12. Reading Grendel’s Mother
- Part IV. Women and Anglo-Saxon Studies
- Chapter 13. Female Agency in Early Anglo-Saxon Studies
- Old English at Tavistock?
- Elizabeth Elstob and Her Transcripts of Old English Materials
- Elizabeth Elstob and the Textus Roffensis
- The Planned Edition of Ælfric’s Catholic Homilies
- Chapter 14. The First Female Anglo-Saxon Professors
- Select Bibliography
- Index of Manuscripts
- General Index
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