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Tables of Contents for Literary Appropriations of the Anglo-Saxons from the Thirteenth to the Twentieth Centuries
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of contributors
ix
Acknowledgements
xi
List of abbreviations
xii
Introduction. The Anglo-Saxons: fact and fiction
1
21
Donald Scragg
Victor and victim: a view of the Anglo-Saxon past in Lazamon's Brut
22
17
Carole Weinberg
Kings, constitution and crisis: `Robert of Gloucester' and the Anglo-Saxon remedy
39
18
Sarah Mitchell
The South English Legendary: Anglo-Saxon saints and national identity
57
17
Jill Frederick
King AElle and the conversion of the English: the development of a legend from Bede to Chaucer
74
19
John Frankis
Saxons versus Danes: the anonymous Edmund Ironside
93
14
Leah Scragg
New times and old stories: Middleton's Hengist
107
15
Julia Briggs
Crushing the convent and the dread Bastille: the Anglo-Saxons, revolution and gender in women's plays of the 1790s
122
16
Jacqueline Pearson
Anglo-Saxon attitudes?: Alfred the Great and the Romantic national epic
138
19
Lynda Pratt
`Utter indifference'?: the Anglo-Saxons in the nineteenth-century novel
157
17
Andrew Sanders
The charge of the Saxon brigade: Tennyson's Battle of Brunanburh †
174
20
Edward B. Irving, JR
Lady Godiva
194
21
Daniel Donoghue
The undeveloped image: Anglo-Saxon in popular consciousness from Turner to Tolkien
215
22
T. A. Shippey
Index of Anglo-Saxons mentioned in the text
237
2
Index of authors and works cited
239