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Anglo-Saxon
Author_Christopher Vaccaro
Beowulf
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Old English
sadomasochism
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- ISBN 9781501517945
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 01 Dec 2025
- Publisher: De Gruyter
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Sadomasochistic Beowulf applies gender/queer theory to the study of Old English literature, advancing the knowledge of both fields. Its arguments are formulated through the works of Sigmund Freud, Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, Roland Barthes, Judith Butler, Leo Bersani, Georges Bataille, and others. The book covers a range of Old English texts from heroic verse narratives to the prose texts of devotional and penitential anthologies and relates these to the poem Beowulf.
Christopher Vaccaro is Senior Lecturer of English language and literature, gender studies, and medieval studies at the University of Vermont, where he has taught since 1999. Professor Vaccaro has three books, Painful Pleasures: Sadomasochism in medieval cultures (Manchester University, 2022), Tolkien and Alterity (Palgrave-Springer, 2017), and The Body in Tolkien’s Legendarium (McFarland, 2013), and has published a number of articles and book chapters.
