Tolkien's modern Middle Ages / edited by Jane Chance and Alfred K. Siewers.

SeriesThe new Middle Ages
New Middle Ages (Palgrave (Firm)) ^A505131
Contents Introduction: Tolkien's modern medievalism / Jane Chance and Alfred K. Siewers -- PART ONE: Recontextualizing the medieval in postmodern Middle-Earth -- A postmodern medievalist? / Verlyn Flieger -- The medievalist('s) fiction: textuality and historicity as aspects of Tolkien's medievalist cultural theory in a postmodernist context / Gergely Nagy -- Tolkien, Dustsceawung, and the gnomic tense: is timelessness medieval or Victorian? / John R. Holmes -- PART TWO: Retreating to a timeless past : Middle-Earth and Victorian medievalism -- The reanimation of antiquity and the resistance to history: Macpherson-Scott-Tolkien / John Hunter -- Archaism, nostalgia, and Tennysonian War in The Lord of the Rings / Andrew Lynch -- Pastoralia and perfectability in William Morris and J.R.R. Tolkien / Chester N. Scoville -- English, Welsh, and Elvish: language, loss, and cultural recovery in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings / Deidre Dawson -- PART THREE: Confronting modern ideologies in Middle-Earth : war, ecology, race, and gender -- Fantastic medievalism and the Great War in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings / Rebekah Long -- Tolkien's cosmic-Christian ecology: the medieval underpinnings / Alfred K. Siewers -- Fear of difference, fear of death: the Sigelwara, Tolkien's Swertings, and racial difference / Brian McFadden -- Tolkien and the other: race and gender in Middle-Earth / Jane Chance -- PART FOUR: Visualizing medievalism : Middle-Earth in art and film -- Similar but not similar: appropriate anachronism in my paintings of Middle-Earth / Ted Nasmith -- Tolkien in New Zealand: man, myth, and movie / Michael N. Stanton.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [213]-227) and index.
ISBN0230616798
ISBN9780230616790

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