IMC 2026: Sessions
Session 1503: [ROOM CHANGE: Esther Simpson Room 2.08] Old English in the Long 19th Century, I: Beowulf, the Old English Canon, and the Continent
Thursday 9 July 2026, 09:00-10:30
| Sponsor: | ERC Project 'Early Medieval English in Nineteenth-Century Europe' (EMERGENCE - StG 101115867), Universiteit Leiden |
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| Organisers: | Rachel A. Fletcher, Centre for the Arts in Society, Universiteit Leiden Ellen Gallimore, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds / Department of English & Related Literature, University of York |
| Moderator/Chair: | Thijs Porck, Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society, Universiteit Leiden |
| Paper 1503-a | The Old English Canon on the Continent: European Anthologies of Old English in the 19th Century (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Old English, Medievalism and Antiquarianism |
| Paper 1503-b | Giusto Grion's Beowulf: Translation, Philology, and Regional Identity in 19th-Century Italy (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Old English, Medievalism and Antiquarianism |
| Paper 1503-c | Grundtvig's Metaphors for Beowulf and Modern Approaches to the Poem (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Old English, Medievalism and Antiquarianism |
| Abstract | This session considers the reception in 19th-century Europe of Old English literature, with a particular focus on Beowulf. Paper a discusses the formation of the Old English canon, specifically in what ways scholars outside of the English-speaking world compiled readers and anthologies of Old English texts and how their choices may have differed from their Anglophone counterparts. Paper b focuses on the reception of Beowulf in Italy and addresses the first full Italian translation of Beowulf by Giusto Grion. Paper c analyses the impact of the pioneering scholarship on Beowulf by the Danish scholar N.F.S. Grundtvig. [This is the first of a collection of three sessions on Old English in the long 19th century] |