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Author Trilling, Renée R.

Title The aesthetics of nostalgia : historical representation in Old English verse / Renée R. Trilling.

Publication Info. Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, [2009]
Saint-Lazare, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, 2010.
©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 296 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Toronto Anglo-Saxon series
Toronto Anglo-Saxon series.
Bibliography 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.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Language Includes some text in Latin and Old English.
Subject English poetry -- Old English, ca. 450-1100 -- History and criticism.
Literature and history -- England.
Literature and history.
England.
Nostalgia in literature.
Nostalgia in literature.
History in literature.
History in literature.
Chronological Term 450-1100
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: 9780802099716
ISBN 9781442697935 (electronic book)
1442697938 (electronic book)
9780802099716 (print)