Tolkien and the Modernists
The Lord of the Rings rarely makes an appearance in college courses that aim to examine modern British and American literature. Only in recent years have the fantasies of J.R.R. Tolkien and his friend, C.S. Lewis, made their way into college syllabi alongside T.S. Eliot''s The Waste Land or F. Scott Fitzgerald''s The Great Gatsby. This volume aims to situate Tolkien and The Lord of the Rings wi...
The Lord of the Rings rarely makes an appearance in college courses that aim to examine modern British and American literature. Only in recent years have the fantasies of J.R.R. Tolkien and his friend, C.S. Lewis, made their way into college syllabi alongside T.S. Eliot''s The Waste Land or F. Scott Fitzgerald''s The Great Gatsby. This volume aims to situate Tolkien and The Lord of the Rings wi...
