Tolkien's Modern Middle Ages

Tolkien's Modern Middle Ages
Author	Jane Chance, Alfred K. Siewers (eds.)
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Released	October 27, 2005
Format	Hardcover
Pages	264
ISBN	1403969736

Tolkien's Modern Middle Ages is a collection of essays edited by Jane Chance and Alfred K. Siewers.

From the Publisher

J.R.R. Tolkien delved into the Middle Ages to create a critique of the modern world in his fantasy, yet did so in a form of modernist literature with postmodern implications and huge commercial success. These essays examine that paradox and its significance in understanding the intersection between traditionalist and counter-culture criticisms of the modern. The approach helps to explain the popularity of his works, the way in which they continue to be brought into dialogue with twenty-first century issues, and their contested literary significance in the academy.

Contents

• Preface and Acknowledgments
• Abbreviations
• Jane Chance and Alfred K. Siewers: "Introduction: Tolkien's Modern Middle Ages?"
• Verlyn Flieger: "A Postmodern Medievalist"
• Gergely Nagy: "The Medievalist's Fiction"
• John R. Holmes: "Tolkien, Dustsceawung, and the Gnomic Tense"
• John Hunter: "The Reanimation of Antiquity and the Resistance to History: Macpherson-Scott-Tolkien"
• Andrew Lynch: "Archaism, Nostalgia, and Tennysonian War in The Lord of the Rings"
• Chester N. Scoville: "Pastoralia and Perfectibility in Tolkien and William Morris"
• Deidre Dawson: "English, Welsh, and Elvish"
• Rebekah Long: "Fantastic Medievalism and the Great War in Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and David Jones's In Parenthesis"
• Alfred K. Siewers: "Tolkien's Cosmic-Christian Ecology"
• Brian McFadden: "Fear of Difference, Fear of Death"
• Jane Chance: "Tolkien and the Other"
• Ted Nasmith: "Similar but not Similar"
• Michael N. Stanton: "Tolkien in New Zealand: Man, Myth, and Movie"
• Bibliography
• Contributors
• Index