IMC 2021: Sessions
Session 1708: Critical Studies in Old English Masculinities, III: Emotional Masculinities
Thursday 8 July 2021, 14.15-15.45
Organisers: | Caroline R. Batten, Faculty of English Language & Literature, University of Oxford Gareth Lloyd Evans, St Hilda's College, University of Oxford |
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Moderator/Chair: | Jessica Hancock, GCU London, Glasgow Caledonian University, London |
Paper 1708-a | Feminism and Psychoanalysis in The Wanderer (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Language and Literature - Old English |
Paper 1708-b | Boys Don't Cry: Elegising the Masculine in The Husband's Message (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Language and Literature - Old English |
Abstract | These four linked sessions (and a round table discussion) explore the wide range of masculinities and masculine characters found in Old English texts. We seek to examine early medieval masculinities with same critical scrutiny that has been brought to the study of women and femininities in Old English literature. Each session examines the multiple ways in which masculinity is constructed, performed, and subverted in early English texts, in dialogue with various critical frameworks of gender and sexuality. This session (3 of 4) examines the role of emotion in the construction of masculinities in Old English literature. |