CONGRESS CANCELED Tolkien's Chaucer

Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

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^{With the upcoming publication of Tolkien’s Lost Chaucer(edited by John M. Bowers, Oxford University Press, 2019) readers of Tolkien have the opportunity to explore how Tolkien read Chaucer as well as how that reading influenced his fiction. This paper session might explore fourteenth-century ideas of romance, neoplatonism, self in relation to society, constructions of gender, etc., as they related to Tolkien’s texts. Christopher Vaccaro}