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Owen Barfield’S Poetry, Drama, And Fiction: Rider On Pegasus By Jeffrey Hipolito, Landon B. Loftin
Owen Barfield’S Poetry, Drama, And Fiction: Rider On Pegasus By Jeffrey Hipolito, Landon B. Loftin
Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature
No abstract provided.
Fathoming The Mathom-House: Museums And Material Heritage In Tolkien’S Legendarium, Stuart Bowes
Fathoming The Mathom-House: Museums And Material Heritage In Tolkien’S Legendarium, Stuart Bowes
Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature
As a renowned author and philologist, J.R.R. Tolkien has long been associated with the processes of literary transmission performed by libraries and archives. His engagement with the comparable cultural institution of the museum is less evident. By charting the gradual integration of the Michel Delving Mathom-house into Middle-Earth, this paper considers Tolkien’s fictional interpretation of a contemporary museum and how it served to enrich his legendarium. It first traces the textual history of this collecting institution from its marginal addition in the drafts of The Hobbit to its considered treatment in The Lord of the Rings. A pivotal development …
A Real Taste For Fairy-Stories: Essays (2025), By Verlyn Flieger., Marilyn R. Pukkila
A Real Taste For Fairy-Stories: Essays (2025), By Verlyn Flieger., Marilyn R. Pukkila
Journal of Tolkien Research
Book review, by Marilyn R. Pukkila, of A Real Taste for Fairy-stories: Essays (2025) by Verlyn Flieger.
Proceedings Of The Tolkien 2019 Conference (2025), Edited By Will Sherwood, Ross Smith
Proceedings Of The Tolkien 2019 Conference (2025), Edited By Will Sherwood, Ross Smith
Journal of Tolkien Research
Book review, by Ross Smith, of Proceedings of the Tolkien 2019 Conference (2025), edited by Will Sherwood.
The Mismeasure Of Orcs: A Critical Reassessment Of Tolkien’S Demonized Creatures (2025), By Robert T. Tally, Jr., Andrew Higgins
The Mismeasure Of Orcs: A Critical Reassessment Of Tolkien’S Demonized Creatures (2025), By Robert T. Tally, Jr., Andrew Higgins
Journal of Tolkien Research
Book review, by Andrew Higgins, of The Mismeasure of Orcs: A Critical Reassessment of Tolkien’s Demonized Creatures (2025), by Robert T. Tally, Jr.
"Cold Words, Heartless And Miserable": Tolkien's Approach To Supernatural Horror, Dylan L. Henderson
"Cold Words, Heartless And Miserable": Tolkien's Approach To Supernatural Horror, Dylan L. Henderson
Journal of Tolkien Research
For the most part, scholars of supernatural horror do not consider J. R. R. Tolkien a contributor to that genre, a conclusion supported by many Tolkien specialists. And yet, horror plays a major role in many of Tolkien’s works, specifically The Lord of the Rings. Indeed, “Fog on the Barrow-downs” is basically a tale of supernatural horror that Tolkien has incorporated into his epic. This article examines that chapter in that context, comparing it to a similar short story by E. F. Benson, and this approach not only highlights the links between Tolkien and contemporaneous supernatural horror—the shares themes …
Series Editors' Preface To Ssl 50.1, Patrick Scott, Tony Jarrells
Series Editors' Preface To Ssl 50.1, Patrick Scott, Tony Jarrells
Studies in Scottish Literature
Introduces the theme of this special issue on Work in 20th-21st century Scottish literature, briefly reviews plans for the remaining issues to be published in this format, and notes that the first SSL issue from its new publisher, Edinburgh University Press, has now appeared.
Introduction: Dreaming The Daily Darg, Corey Gibson
Introduction: Dreaming The Daily Darg, Corey Gibson
Studies in Scottish Literature
Describes the scope of the Carnegie Trust -funded project on Working Lives in Scottish Writing since 1918, discusses the topics and theoretical perspectives explored in the research phase, noting both change and continuity from the treatment dominant in early and mid-20th century Scottish literary studies, and introduces the essays in this special issue and their contributions to the wider project theme.
Jute Mill Songs: Mary Brooksbank And Industrial Tradition In A Dying Industry, Erin Farley
Jute Mill Songs: Mary Brooksbank And Industrial Tradition In A Dying Industry, Erin Farley
Studies in Scottish Literature
This article outlines some key elements of Dundee’s industrial literary tradition, primarily associated with the city’s jute industry, as expressed in the songs and poems of Mary Brooksbank (1897-1978). It also explores ways in which writers working from the 1980s onwards have used the memory of the jute industry, Brooksbank herself, and associated verse traditions to imagine place and work in post-industrial Dundee.
‘And On One Toils, Into The Hill’: Working And Walking In Nan Shepherd’S North East, Sarah Leith
‘And On One Toils, Into The Hill’: Working And Walking In Nan Shepherd’S North East, Sarah Leith
Studies in Scottish Literature
This article considers the duality of working and walking in Nan Shepherd’s writings about the North East of Scotland. Exploring Shepherd’s works from the perspectives of social and intellectual history, it considers the ways in which she represented both working and walking as labour during the first half of Scotland’s twentieth century.
Agnes Owens And The Parliament Of Insignificant Lives, Marie-Odile Pittin-Hedon
Agnes Owens And The Parliament Of Insignificant Lives, Marie-Odile Pittin-Hedon
Studies in Scottish Literature
This article focuses on Agnes Owens whose work is examined in the light of Michel Foucault’s essay “Lives of Insignificant Men”, and Pierre Rosanvallon’s Parliament of the Invisible. It tackles the idea that Owens portrays what Foucault calls “insignificant lives”, with a particular emphasis on working or working-class women and on what Owens sees as poverty “in [the] minds”, to show that her fiction is political in a way that is not openly militant.
Writing Loss, Culture And Change: Deindustrialisation And Community Writers’ Groups In Glasgow, Kate Wilson
Writing Loss, Culture And Change: Deindustrialisation And Community Writers’ Groups In Glasgow, Kate Wilson
Studies in Scottish Literature
No abstract provided.
Proletarian Nights In Archie Hind’S The Dear Green Place, Corey Gibson
Proletarian Nights In Archie Hind’S The Dear Green Place, Corey Gibson
Studies in Scottish Literature
This article argues for a reappraisal of Archie Hind's landmark Glasgow novel The Dear Green Place (1966), which represents the conflation and combination of long histories of class formation with the grind of everyday labours, and a provocation about the possibilities, limitations, and contradictions of working-class artistry in twentieth-century Scotland.
Labour And (Class) Struggle In James Barke’S Compositionist Imaginaries: Dreaming With Rob Roy, Marx & Burns, Arianna Introna
Labour And (Class) Struggle In James Barke’S Compositionist Imaginaries: Dreaming With Rob Roy, Marx & Burns, Arianna Introna
Studies in Scottish Literature
James Barke’s literary imagination of working lives is primarily concerned with how different modes of labour generate a tension between refusal of work and the material constraints on fully engaging in it. Putting into conversation the Marxist autonomist method of ‘compositionism’ with Barke’s own theories of art and class struggle, this article traces how Barke’s fiction represents toil on the one hand, and the yearning for a life beyond the tyranny of capital on the other, as defining the horizons of working-class life.
Notes On Contributors To Ssl 50.1
Notes On Contributors To Ssl 50.1
Studies in Scottish Literature
No abstract provided.
James Kelman And The Impossibility Of Managerial Souls, Joseph H. Jackson
James Kelman And The Impossibility Of Managerial Souls, Joseph H. Jackson
Studies in Scottish Literature
Discusses James Kelman's portrayal of middle managers and their interactions with those they manage in "The Bevel' (1983), A Disaffection (1989), How Late It Was, How Late, (1994), and You Have to be Careful in the Land of the Free (2004), exploring their interactions with those they manage in terms of managerialism, management theories, and the U.K. government's New Public Management reforms.
‘Just Get It On The Table’: Gendered Food Labour In Janice Galloway’S Fiction, Gina Lyle
‘Just Get It On The Table’: Gendered Food Labour In Janice Galloway’S Fiction, Gina Lyle
Studies in Scottish Literature
This article explores how food labour is used to articulate concerns around gendered power dynamics in Janice Galloway’s short stories and novels. By examining instances of food management and preparation, this article argues that food makes struggles for identity, autonomy, and power more clearly visible. Writing by Sarah Sceats and Mary McGlynn is used to discuss issues around women’s identity formation, while Carole Jones’s work on gender disorientation in late twentieth-century Scotland and Nick Fiddes’s materials on the prestige of meat both aid in arguments around men’s relationships with food labour.
Scottish Workers’ Stories Of Life And Labour During Covid-19 From The Workers’ Stories Project, Hailey Maxwell, Ruth Gilbert, Suki Sangha, Ewan Gibbs
Scottish Workers’ Stories Of Life And Labour During Covid-19 From The Workers’ Stories Project, Hailey Maxwell, Ruth Gilbert, Suki Sangha, Ewan Gibbs
Studies in Scottish Literature
This article explores how Scottish workers narrated the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on their life and work, by analysing 55 fifty-five submissions to the Workers' Stories Project. Between 2020 and 2022, the project creative reflections on the pandemic from workers across Scotland, drawing on the tradition of workers' inquiry and workers' education that encouraged critical reflection and the embrace of worker creativity. Submissions were overwhelmingly literary in form, primarily short prose supplemented by poetry, with three key themes emerging: intimacy and alienation; insecurity and status; and a slower living pace. Cumulatively, the stories underline how COVID-19 magnified workplace injustices …
The Chartist Newspaper Ballad In The Northern Star, Kaylen Pritchard
The Chartist Newspaper Ballad In The Northern Star, Kaylen Pritchard
Senior Theses
This thesis examines the Chartist newspaper ballad as a politically charged poetic form that mediated working-class identity, moral economy, and collective action during the British Chartist movement, borrowing from and reinventing the political ballad as conceived during the Romantic period. Although Chartism is often defined through the political demands of the People’s Charter, Chartist thought framed the movement as equally rooted in intellectual and moral improvement. Poetry, particularly the ballad, became a crucial site where these aspirations were articulated. Drawing on the poetry columns in the Northern Star, the period’s most radical political paper, this study argues that the Chartist …
“Who Wrought It Slowly Long Ago” : Anonymity, The Unnamed, And The Ethical Use Of Objects Found On The Barrow-Downs, Nicholas Birns
“Who Wrought It Slowly Long Ago” : Anonymity, The Unnamed, And The Ethical Use Of Objects Found On The Barrow-Downs, Nicholas Birns
Journal of Tolkien Research
This essay delves into the significance of two objects found by the Hobbits and Tom Bombadil on the Barrow-Downs in J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings." It considers how the sword found by Merry and the brooch with Tom Bombadil gives to Goldberry have different fates and tell different ethical stories. The essay contrasts the ethical implications of Merry's use of a sword from the Barrow-Downs, which plays a crucial role in the plot, with Goldberry's wearing of a brooch, raising questions about cultural appropriation and the moral reclamation of a artifacts The combination of the importance of these …
Interspecies Responsivity In Early Modern Drama And Animal Performances, Taylor C. Culbert
Interspecies Responsivity In Early Modern Drama And Animal Performances, Taylor C. Culbert
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
This dissertation proposes an expansive, interspecies definition of performance that uses behavior rather than cognition as the decisive feature and illustrates how such a definition can reshape our approach to theatre and performance history. Using the concept of responsivity, which refers to the embodied and affective ways that humans and non-human animals acknowledge and react to one another, I trace human–animal interactions across a variety of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century performance genres, from the aristocratic stag hunt and entertainments involving trained animals to the plays of Molière and Shakespeare. Drawing on my experience training animals, I offer a new perspective on …
Josef Madlener’S “Der Berggeist”: Not The “Origin Of Gandalf”, Douglas A. Anderson
Josef Madlener’S “Der Berggeist”: Not The “Origin Of Gandalf”, Douglas A. Anderson
Journal of Tolkien Research
Article on why Josef Madlener’s “Der Berggeist” can not be the “Origin of Gandalf”
“Of Their Women We Hear Less”: Pride And Prejudice In The Tale Of ‘Aldarion And Erendis.’, Sara Brown
“Of Their Women We Hear Less”: Pride And Prejudice In The Tale Of ‘Aldarion And Erendis.’, Sara Brown
Journal of Tolkien Research
In discussing J.R.R. Tolkien’s Second Age “Tale of the Mariner’s Wife,” past scholars have used descriptors such as ‘resentful’, ‘strong-willed’, ‘unhappy’ – even ‘misandrist’. There can be no doubt that this is a story of a deeply unhappy marriage between two people with irreconcilable differences, to use the modern parlance of the divorce courts, but it would also be true to say that Erendis seems to come out of the narrative with a more sullied reputation than her husband. In fact, Aldarion appears to have everything he could have wanted, such as his freedom to sail and an heir for …
Romanticism In Tolkien’S The Hobbit: Nature And Domestic Life As A Force For Good, James J. Schultz
Romanticism In Tolkien’S The Hobbit: Nature And Domestic Life As A Force For Good, James J. Schultz
Journal of Tolkien Research
J.R.R. Tolkien’s works tend to be viewed by both the public and by scholars through the lens of religious moralism, or else in the context of medievalism, such as with Tom Shippey’s arguments in The Road to Middle Earth. While these take much into consideration in their arguments, these and other works tend to ignore the influences of the Romantic literary movement on Tolkien’s work. This movement, lasting from the late 1700s to the early 1800s, held ideals like beauty and nature in the highest regard. This is seen in some of the most famous works of its time, such …
Enduring The Torturing Shears: Gardens And Novel Conventions In The Brontës' Novels, Grace Mattingly
Enduring The Torturing Shears: Gardens And Novel Conventions In The Brontës' Novels, Grace Mattingly
Honors Theses
This thesis is a literary analysis of the use of gardens and garden imagery in Anne Brontë’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, and Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights to subvert Victorian novel conventions. This work is part of the larger conversation of how female authors in the literary canon express dissatisfaction with or resistance to Victorian social mores. This thesis is divided into three chapters, each focusing on one novel, and it primarily evaluates how gardens are employed by the Brontës to challenge plot and genre conventions. The work examines concerns surrounding the Victorian marriage institution, female …
The Influence Of The Pearl-Maiden On The Imagination Of J. R.R. Tolkien, Jane Beal
The Influence Of The Pearl-Maiden On The Imagination Of J. R.R. Tolkien, Jane Beal
Online Midwinter Seminar (OMS)
No abstract provided.
I’D Rather (S)He Was Dead: Resurrection & Gender Transition In Superhero Comics, Jonathan Sexton, Eitan Runyan
I’D Rather (S)He Was Dead: Resurrection & Gender Transition In Superhero Comics, Jonathan Sexton, Eitan Runyan
Online Midwinter Seminar (OMS)
No abstract provided.
From Hildeburh To Héra: Recuperating Women’S Presence In Beowulf, J.R.R. Tolkien’S The Lord Of The Rings, And Kenji Kamiyama’S The War Of The Rohirrim, Christopher Vaccaro
From Hildeburh To Héra: Recuperating Women’S Presence In Beowulf, J.R.R. Tolkien’S The Lord Of The Rings, And Kenji Kamiyama’S The War Of The Rohirrim, Christopher Vaccaro
Online Midwinter Seminar (OMS)
No abstract provided.
The Tragedy Of Arwen Evenstar In “The Tale Of Aragorn And Arwen” And In Her Legacy On Film, Nicole Duplessis
The Tragedy Of Arwen Evenstar In “The Tale Of Aragorn And Arwen” And In Her Legacy On Film, Nicole Duplessis
Online Midwinter Seminar (OMS)
No abstract provided.
The Lay(Er)S Of The Corrigan, Lelie Brémont
The Lay(Er)S Of The Corrigan, Lelie Brémont
Online Midwinter Seminar (OMS)
No abstract provided.