The essays of this volume employ diverse strategies for conceptualizing the history of English as at once chaotic and yet amenable to circumscribed analyses that incorporate a broad view of language change. Several of the world's leading scholars of the English language contribute to the overall perspective that an elaboration of linguistic, cultural, and social contexts and a renewed emphasis on the concrete historical conditions of language change are necessary to approach some long-standing obstacles in the study of the history of the English language. Designed for students, teachers, and...
The essays of this volume employ diverse strategies for conceptualizing the history of English as at once chaotic and yet amenable to circumscribed an...
This revised edition of A History of Old English Literature draws extensively on the latest scholarship to have evolved over the last decade. The text incorporates additional material throughout, including two new chapters on Anglo-Saxon manuscripts and incidental and marginal texts.
This revised edition responds to the renewed historicism in medieval studies
Provides wide-ranging coverage, including Anglo-Latin literature as well as non-canonical writings
Includes new chapters on manuscripts and on marginal and incidental texts
Incorporates...
This revised edition of A History of Old English Literature draws extensively on the latest scholarship to have evolved over the last decade...
