Description:
Aesthetics of Nostalgia reads Anglo-Saxon historical verse in terms of how its aesthetic form interacted with the culture and politics of the period.
Brief description: Renée R. Trilling is an assistant professor in the Department of English at the University of Illinois.
Review Quotes: 'Trilling writes well and what she writes is highly intelligent. That makes her book not only worth reading, but worth debating and arguing with ... Trilling's deeply felt book always teaches the reader to think afresh about an ancient literature.'