J.R.R. Tolkien's Utopianism and the Classics

This book opens up new perspectives on the English fantasy writer J.R.R. Tolkien, arguing that he was an influential thinker of utopianism in 20th-century fiction and that his scrutiny of utopias can be assessed through his dialogue with antiquity. Tolkien''s engagement with the ancient world often reflects an interest in retrotopianism: his fictional places – cities, forests, homes – draw on a ri...