The Eighth Deadly Sin: Dejection as Passion in The Wanderer

Since the nineteenth century, the Anglo-Saxon poem The Wanderer has been classified as an Old English elegy. Drawing on Evagrius Ponticus's Praktikos and John Cassian's The Institutes, this thesis reexamines our traditional methods of classification for this Exeter Book poem by using an early eastern Christian version of the seven deadly sins--the deadly passions--as a new interpretive framework.

Grantor dc:publisher

Wake Forest University

Year dc:date.issued

2010

Author dc:creator

• Wilkinson, Benjamin Matthew

• English literature

Language dc:language.iso

en_US

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10339/14780

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:wakespace.lib.wfu.edu:10339/14780