Studies literary responses towards the Anglo-Saxons from the medieval period to the present.

List of contributors; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction: the Anglo-Saxons: fact and fiction Donald Scragg; 1. Victor and victim: a view of the Anglo-Saxon past in Lazamon's Brut Carole Weinberg; 2. Kings, constitution and crisis: 'Robert of Gloucester' and the Anglo-Saxon remedy Sarah Mitchell; 3. The South English Legendary: Anglo-Saxon saints and national identity Jill Frederick; 4. King AElle and the conversion of the English: the development of a legend from Bede to Chaucer John Frankis; 5. Saxons versus Danes: the anonymous Edmund Ironside Leah Scragg; 6. New times and old stories: Middleton's Hengist Julia Briggs; 7. Crushing the convent and the dread Bastille: the Anglo-Saxons, revolution and gender in women's plays of the 1790s Jacqueline Pearson; 8. Anglo-Saxon attitudes?: Alfred the Great and the Romantic national epic Lynda Pratt; 9. 'Utter indifference?': the Anglo-Saxons in the nineteenth-century novel Andrew Sanders; 10. The charge of the Saxon brigade: Tennyson's Battle of Brunanburh Edward B. Irving Jr; 11. Lady Godiva Daniel Donoghue; 12. The undeveloped image: Anglo-Saxon in popular consciousness from Turner to Tolkien T. A. Shippey; Indexes.