Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-286) and index.
Contents
Introduction. Form of History -- 1. Art and History in Old English Heroic Poetry -- 2. In Principio: Origins of the Present in Anglo-Saxon Biblical Verse -- 3. Verse Memorials and the Viking Conflict -- 4. Poetic Memory: The Canonical Verse of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle -- 5. Transitional Verse in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: Changing the Shape of History -- Conclusion: The Past in the Present.
Summary
Aesthetics of Nostalgia reads Anglo-Saxon historical verse in terms of how its aesthetic form interacted with the culture and politics of the period.
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