Subversive Fantasist: Tolkien on Class Difference

Author / Editor
Chance, Jane.

Title
Subversive Fantasist: Tolkien on Class Difference

Published
Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull, eds. The Lord of the Rings, 1954-2004: Scholarship in Honor of Richard E. Blackwelder (Milwaukee, Wis.: Marquette University Press, 2006), pp. 153-68.

Description
In his fiction, Chance contends, Tolkien subverts traditional class distinctions, and his studies of Chaucer reflect a similar sensibility.

Alternative Title
The Lord of the Rings, 1954-2004: Scholarship in Honor of Richard E. Blackwelder

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion