Dating Beowulf

Dating Beowulf explores the difficulties and pleasures of intimacy with Beowulf –philological and speculative, playful and serious – and how they organise themselves in an array of interrelated critical practices. Opening avenues for future work, it complicates urgent questions in the discourses of literary theory and Old English studies.

Daniel C. Remein is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Boston
Erica Weaver is Assistant Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles

'...the collection offers an opportunity to see the poem anew, from unexpected angles and in sometimes surprising contexts. At the same time, it models a kind of intellectual enterprise that welcomes new readers and encourages them to pay attention to where, how, and why they feel their own investments in the poem.'
Modern Philology

'a delight to read. The quality of its fourteen essays is uniformly high, evidence of careful and thoughtful work on the part of both authors and editors.'
Modern Philology

'One of the great delights of this book is how frequently contributors refer to other chapters and how many thematic clusters emerge. What really unites the collection is not a single definition of intimacy, but an attitude toward or orientation to the field of early medieval studies, one driven by a spirit of playfulness, openness, and accessibility. The fourteen essays sparkle with brilliant writing and a sense of shared joy in reading and writing about Beowulf.'
Arthuriana