Life Both Public and Private
Subtitle: Expressions of Individuality in Old English Poetry
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9781476673950
Subjects: English poetry, history and criticism, old english, ca. 450-1100; Self (philosophy); Difference (philosophy); Civilization, anglo-saxon
Description: "The author argues that a singular, Anglo-Saxon sense of self may be found by analyzing their surviving verse. The concept of the individual, with an identity outside of her community, is clearly evident during this period. The view that the individual as we understand it did not really exist until the Renaissance does not stand up to scrutiny"--