Table of Contents

Introduction; Beowulf; The Pagan Coloring of Beowulf; Beowulf and the Margins of Literacy; Elements of the Marvellous in the Characterization of Beowulf: A Reconsideration of the Textual Evidence; The Authenticating Voice in Beowulf; The Great Feud: Scriptural History and Strife in Beowulf III; The Germanic Context of the Unferp Episode; Skaldic Verse and the Date of Beowulf; Beowulf, Bede, and St. Oswine: The Hero's Pride in Old English Hagiography ; The Legacy of Wiglaf: Saving a Wounded Beowulf; The Women of Beowulf: A Context for Interpretation; Kuhn's Laws, Old English Poetry, and the New Philology; On the Dating of Beowulf

About the Author

Peter Baker is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Virginia. He is the author of the award-winning Deconstruction and theEthical Turn (1995).