Description:
After decades of study dominated by adult gender studies, Childhood & Adolescence in Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture rebalances our understanding of family life in the Anglo-Saxon era by reconstructing the lives of medieval children and adolescents through their literary representation.
Brief description:
Susan Irvine is Quain Professor of English Language and Literature at University College London.
Review Quotes:
"The introduction states that a major aim of the volume is to expand scholarly interest in children and childhood to earlier centuries by starting new conversations about their representation in Old English texts. The book achieves that aim: with the wide-ranging topics of the chapters, all readers will find something that provokes them to consider new discussion."
--Michael Fox, Western University, Speculum"This essay collection fulfills the stated goal of its introduction, to 'prompt further research and debate' about childhood and adolescence in Anglo-Saxon literary culture."
--Mary Dockray-Miller, Lesley University, Journal of English and Germanic Philology