Beowulf

This Guide provides an essential overview of the large body of Beowulf criticism. Like other books in the series, this Guide takes a chronological approach, moving from the discussions of Beowulf by 18th century Antiquarians to Heaney's recent translation. The author charts the changes in the theoretical approaches applied to the poem, and chapters are fully cross-referenced to signal where thematic approaches to the poem overlap. The Guide also includes a chapter discussing Tolkein's 1936 lecture on Beowulf.

JODI-ANN GEORGE is Lecturer in English at the University of Dundee. In the past, she has taught courses on Old English Language and Literature, Middle English Language and Literature, and papers in the 16th, 17th , 18th and 19th centuries. She has published on the Old English Daniel, seventeenth-century manuscripts and the pre-Raphaelites, and has co-edited the sixteenth-century play Horestes. She is also the editor of Geoffrey Chaucer: The General Prologue in the Readers' Guide series.