Tolkien's Modern Middle Ages

This collection examines how J.R.R. Tolkien delved into the Middle Ages to fashion a critique of the modern world that is postmodern in implication, subversive in nature, and oddly still traditionalist in motivation, in a way that is relevant to current debate over forging workable cross-cultural coalitions on pressing global problems.

Jane Chance is Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Chair and Professor of English, Rice University.

Alfred K. Siewers is Associate Professor of English Literature and Coordinator of the Nature and Human Communities, Bucknell University.