Contents

pp v-vi

List of Illustrations

pp vii-viii

List of Contributors

pp ix-xii

Acknowledgements

pp xiii-xiv

List of Abbreviations

pp xv-xvi

Early Medieval English in the Modern Age: An Introduction to Old English Medievalism

pp 1-16

I - Reinventing, Reimagining and Recontextualizing Old English Poetry

pp 17-18

1 - Old English as a Playground for Poets? W. H. Auden, Christopher Patton and Jeramy Dodds

pp 19-36

2 - ‘Abroad in One’s Own Tradition’: Old English Poetry and Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows (1908)

pp 37-52

3 - Wulf and Eadwacer in 1830 New Zealand: Anglo-Saxonism and Postcolonialism in Hamish Clayton’s Wulf (2011)

pp 53-70

4 - Old English Poetry and Sutton Hoo on Display: Creating ‘the Anglo-Saxon’ in Museums

pp 71-92

II - Invoking Early Medieval England and Its Language in Historical Fiction

pp 93-94

5 - Creating a ‘Shadow Tongue’: The Merging of Two Language Stages

pp 95-114

6 - At the Threshold of the Inarticulate: The Reception of ‘Made-up’ English in Paul Kingsnorth’s The Wake (2014)

pp 115-134

7 - Reimagining Early Medieval Britain: The Language of Spirituality

pp 135-154

8 - Historical Friction: Constructing Pastness in Fiction Set in Eleventh-Century England

pp 155-170

III - Translating and Composing in Neo-Old English

pp 171-172

9 - Ge wordful, ge wordig: Translating Modern Texts into Old English

pp 173-190

10 - Fruit, Fat and Fermentation: Food and Drink in Peter Baker’s (Neo-)Old English Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

pp 191-208

11 - The Fall of the King and the Composition of Neo-Old English Verse

pp 209-222

IV - Approaching Old English and Neo-Old English in the Classroom

pp 223-224

12 - Mitchell & Robinson’s Medievalism: Echoes of Empire in the History of Old English Pedagogy

pp 225-242

13 - The Magic of Telecinematic Neo-Old English in University Teaching

pp 243-264

Bibliography

pp 265-288

Index

pp 289-294

Medievalism

pp 295-296