A Beowulf handbook Book

I can hardly overstate how excellently useful this is as a companion to reading and studying "Beowulf." Eighteen chapters by different scholars are devoted to those most essential (and infamous) aspects of "Beowulf" scholarship which have always been, and continue to be, of fundamental importance -- e.g. "Date, Provenance, Author, Audiences," "Rhetoric and Style," "Structure and Unity," "Textual Criticism," "Christian and Pagan Elements," "Social Milieu," "Beowulf and Archaeology," "Sources and Analogues," etc. etc. Not only does each individual chapter give an excellent introduction to the topic, and overview of previous scholarship, but each chapter /also/ contains an extremely useful annotated bibliography of works pertaining to that particular topic. Highly recommended, especially for more advanced readers first coming to "Beowulf."