{"product_id":"9780367881122","title":"The Ecology of the English Outlaw in Medieval Literature : From Fen to Greenwood","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Harlan-Haughey, Sarah \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 12\/12\/2019,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 220 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780367881122,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArguing that outlaw narratives become particularly popular and poignant at moments of national ecological and political crisis, Sarah Harlan-Haughey examines the figure of the outlaw in Anglo-Saxon poetry and Old English exile lyrics such as Beowulf, works dealing with the life and actions of Hereward, the Anglo-Norman romance of Fulk Fitz Waryn, the Robin Hood ballads, and the Tale of Gamelyn. Although the outlaw's wilderness shelter changed dramatically from the menacing fens and forests of Anglo-Saxon England to the bright, known, and mapped greenwood of the late outlaw romances and ballads, Harlan-Haughey observes that the outlaw remained strongly animalistic, other, and liminal. His brutality points to a deep literary ambivalence towards wilderness and the animal, at the same time that figures such as the Anglo-Saxon resistance fighter Hereward, the brutal yet courtly Gamelyn, and Robin Hood often represent a lost England imagined as pristine and forested. In analyzing outlaw literature as a form of nature writing, Harlan-Haughey suggests that it often reveals more about medieval anxieties respecting humanity's place in nature than it does about the political realities of the period.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42915585228844,"sku":"9780367881122","price":38.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9780367881122.jpg?v=1711567495","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/9780367881122","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}