Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Introduction - Alexander L. Kaufman PART I: OLD ENGLISH AND THE NORTH Chapter 1: Grendel as Novelistic Outlaw-Hero: A Girardian Reading - Eric. R. Carlson Chapter 2: The Evolution of Monster Fights: From Beowulf versus Grendel to Jon Gudmundsson laerdi versus the Snaefjalladraugur and Beyond - Shaun F. D. Hughes Chapter 3: Salvation Twice Told: Idolatry, Typology, and Repentance in Genesis B - J. A. Jackson Chapter 4: Vision and Sex in the Iconography of the Old English Genesis Manuscript - Molly A. Martin Chapter 5: Heroic/Apocalyptic Metalandscapes of Some Anglo-Scandanavian Art - E. L. Risden PART II: ROBIN HOOD Chapter 6: Feasts in the Forest - Stephen Knight Chapter 7: Show or Tell? Priority and Interplay in the Early Robin Hood Play/Games and Poems - John Marshall Chapter 8: "...something of the air of a celebration": Scott, Peacock, and Maid Marian - Alan T. Gaylord Chapter 9: Two Ancient Ballads: "Robin Hood's Courtship with Jack Cade's Daughter"; and "The Freiris Tragedie": An Edition - Alexander L. Kaufman Chapter 10: "The grasping, rasping Norman race": Victorian Nationalism and Sir George Alexander Macfarren's 1860 Opera, Robin Hood - Kevin J. Harty PART III: BOOKS AND LITERATURE Chapter 11: The Evangelist Symbols in the Judith of Flanders Gospels: Devotion, Prestige, and Cultural Production - Mary Dockray-Miller Chapter 12: Chaucer and the Art of Not Eating a Book - Robert Boenig Chapter 13: Lancelot the One-Time Outlaw: Fallenness and Forgiveness in the Morte Darthur - Jack Ray Baker Thomas H. Ohlgren's Published Writings Index

About the Author

Dorsey Armstrong is Associate Professor of English, Purdue University. Shaun F. D. Hughes is Professor of English, Purdue University. Alexander L. Kaufman is Professor of English, Auburn University at Montgomery.