{"product_id":"beowulf-andreas-haarder-9780415029704","title":"Beowulf: The Critical Heritage","description":"\u003cem\u003eBeowulf\u003c\/em\u003e is the oldest and most complete epic poem in any non-Classical European language. Our only manuscript, written in Old English, dates from close to the year 1000. However, the poem remained effectively unknown even to scholars until the year 1815, when it was first published in Copenhagen.\u003cbr\u003e This impressive volume selects over one hundred works of critical commentary from the vast body of scholarship on \u003cem\u003eBeowulf\u003c\/em\u003e - including English translations from German, Danish, Latin and Spanish - from the poem's first mention in 1705 to the Anglophone scholarship of the early twentieth century. Tom Shippey provides both a contextual introduction and a guide to the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century scholarship which generated these \u003cem\u003eBeowulf\u003c\/em\u003e commentaries.\u003cbr\u003e The book is a vital document for the study of one of the major texts of 'the Northern renaissance', in which completely unknown poems and even languages were brought to the attention first of the learned world and then of popular culture. It also acts as a valuable guide to the development of nationalist and racist sentiment, beginning romantically and ending with World War and attempted genocide.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Andreas Haarder\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0415029708\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780415029704\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/17\/1998\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 612\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.69lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.94h x 5.64w x 1.52d","brand":"Andreas Haarder","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44056063246591,"sku":"9780415029704","price":325.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_25ea4167-5a8a-4382-bef0-dba54377d70d.jpg?v=1685039305","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/beowulf-andreas-haarder-9780415029704","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}