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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
Moderator/Chair:Jessica Hancock, GCU London, Glasgow Caledonian University, London
Paper 1708-aFeminism and Psychoanalysis in The Wanderer
(Language: English)
Thomas James Henry Williams, Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic, University of Cambridge
Index terms: Gender Studies, Language and Literature - Old English
Paper 1708-bBoys Don't Cry: Elegising the Masculine in The Husband's Message
(Language: English)
Grace Elizabeth O'Duffy, Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic, University of Cambridge
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.