I am waiting for medievalists to come out and say that the dating of Beowulf is an inherently nationalistic, white, & racist inquiry (4)
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Replying to @bre_leake @micah_goodrich
Tell me more. As in early date = desire for Germanic origins?
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Replying to @joshua_r_eyler @bre_leake
Yes. The earlier the date the closer to a fictionalized Germanic origin & insistence on early date uncomfortably upholds these values
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Violent, masculinist, colonialist story as England's origin, earlier date embeds those values in this history & gets replicated in present
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Curious: is this dating question emerging from 18c or 19c antiquarianism/scholarship?
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I've been thinking about the link between 18c notions of "the gothic" & its ties to 19c national origin stories & whiteness
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Replying to @bre_leake @DaveMazella and
@heyouonline right up your alley.
4:54 PM - 11 Sep 2017
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