Chloe Fairbanks and Mary Hitchman are joined by Aylin Malcolm (University of Pennsylvania) and Dr Hillary Eklund (Loyola University New Orleans) to discuss wetlands, aquatic life, and the significance of water to medieval and early modern people.
Disclaimer: Sound quality affected by recording restrictions due to COVID-19.
Works Consulted
*Beowulf, trans. Seamus Heaney (New York, NY: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2000), lines 539-549
* ‘The Seafarer’ in Robert E. Bjork (ed.), Old English Shorter Poems: Wisdom and Lyric (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014), pp. 28-29.
Bodily and Spiritual Hygiene in Medieval and Early Modern Literature Explorations of Textual Presentations of Filth and Water ed. Albrecht Classen (Berlin, Germany: De Gruyter, 2017)
The Maritime World of Early Modern Britain, eds. Richard J. Blakemore and James Davey (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2020)
Water and the Environment in the Anglo-Saxon World ed. Maren Clegg Hyer and Della Hooke (Oxford: OUP, 2018)
Fictions of the Sea: Critical Perspectives on the Ocean in British Literature and Culture, ed. Bernhard Klein (Abingdon: Routledge, 2016)
‘Leaky Vessels: The Incontinent Women of City Comedy’, Gail Kern Paster, Renaissance Drama 18 (1987), pp. 43-65
Music:
'Fjeld' by Alexander Nakarada (www.serpentsoundstudios.com)
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