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The Battle of Maldon
The battle of Maldon in 991 AD was a defeat. The Old English poem about it that survives, The Battle of Maldon, celebrates the extreme valour of Byrhtnoth, the leader of the …
The Enchanted Moment in Romantic Literature
At the end of ‘Ode to a Nightingale’, Keats’s speaker famously asks of the foregoing reverie: ‘Was it a vision, or a waking dream?’ This book is concerned with such ‘enchanted’ …
The Old English Gnomic Poems Maxims I and Maxims II
Maxims I and Maxims II, which comprise a seemingly haphazard assortment of Old English poetic gnomes (sayings put into verse to aid memory), are intriguing yet mysterious …
Sleuthing Miss Marple
Sleuthing Miss Marple mirrors the structure and playful analytic style of a detective novel. Beginning at the ‘scene of the crime’, this investigation places Agatha Christie and …
The Boke of Gostely Grace
The Boke of Gostely Grace is the anonymous Middle English version of the Liber specialis gratiae by the German visionary Mechthild of Hackeborn (1241–1298). The original Liber, …
The Page is Printed
Does it matter when and where a poem was written? Or on what kind of paper? How do the author’s ideas about inspiration or how a poem should be written precondition the moment of …
Late Victorian Literary Collaboration
An exciting new contribution to the expanding but still largely uncharted territory of collaboration studies, Late Victorian Literary Collaboration is the first book-length study …
A Companion to The Boke of Gostely Grace
The Boke of Gostely Grace is a Middle English translation of the Liber specialis gratiae by the German visionary Mechthild of Hackeborn (1241–1298), a Benedictine/Cistercian nun at …
Shakespeare and Science Fiction
In Shakespeare and Science Fiction Sarah Annes Brown investigates why so many science fiction writers have turned to Shakespeare when imagining humanity’s future. He and his works …
Science Fiction and the Historical Novel
If you woke to realize that you could rewrite your yesterday without knowing the kind of tomorrow it would grant you, would you do it? Are the authors of our destiny working with …