Nonhuman Voices in Anglo-Saxon Literature and Material Culture
- Submitting institution
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The University of Manchester
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 62963496
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- ISBN
- 9781526101105
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- June
- Year of publication
- 2017
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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A - SALC
- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This 100,000-word monograph took almost a decade to research and write. It draws on new materialism to analyse the ‘speaking objects’ found in Old English literature and epigraphy. It applies a new theoretical paradigm to familiar and understudied texts and artefacts from the pre-Conquest period. It counters previous, anthropocentric interpretations of these speaking objects, rethinking divisions between animate human subjects and inanimate nonhuman objects. A variety of early medieval primary sources, across both textual and material culture, and from the eighth century to the tenth, are used to inform and challenge modern understandings of nonhuman voices, agency and materiality.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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