Introduction: Tolkien's modern medievalism / Jane Chance, 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.
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