Dating Beowulf explores the difficulties and pleasures of intimacy with Beowulf -philological and speculative, playful and serious - and how they organise themselves in an array of interrelated critical practices. Opening avenues for future work, it complicates urgent questions in the discourses of literary theory and Old English studies.

Daniel C. Remein is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Boston
Erica Weaver is Assistant Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles

1 Getting intimate - Daniel C. Remein and Erica Weaver
Part I: Beowulf in public
2 Community, joy, and the intimacy of narrative in Beowulf - Benjamin A. Saltzman
3 Beowulf and the intimacy of large parties - Roberta Frank
4 Beowulf as Wayland's work: thinking, feeling, making - James Paz
Part II: Beowulf at home
5 Beowulf and babies - Donna Beth Ellard
6 At home in the fens with the Grendelkin - Christopher Abram
Part III: Beowulf outside
7 Elemental intimacies: agency in the Finnsburg episode - Mary Kate Hurley
8 What the raven told the eagle: animal language and the return of loss in Beowulf - Mo Pareles
Part IV: Beowulf's contact list
9 Men into monsters: troubling race, ethnicity, and masculinity in Beowulf - Catalin Taranu
10 Sad men in Beowulf - Robin Norris
11 Differing intimacies: Beowulf translations by Seamus Heaney and Thomas Meyer - David Hadbawnik
Part V: Beowulf in bed
12 Beowulf and Andreas: intimate relations - Irina Dumitrescu
13 Beowulf, Bryher, and the Blitz: a queer history - Peter Buchanan
14 Dating Wiglaf: emotional connections to the young hero in Beowulf - Mary Dockray-Miller
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