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  title info:
    title: Perilous and fair
    sub title: women in the works and life of J. R. R. Tolkien
  name:
    name part: Croft, Janet Brennan
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Donovan, Leslie A.
    name part: 1957-
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Wheaton College (Ill.)
    name part: Marion E. Wade Center.
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: cau
    date issued: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 349 pages ; 23 cm
  abstract: Includes seven classic articles as well as seven new examinations of women in Tolkien's works and life bringing together not only perspectives on Tolkien's most commonly discussed female characters -- Éowyn, Galadriel, and Lúthien -- but also on less studies figures such as Nienna, Yavanna, Shelob, and Arwen.
  table of contents: Introduction: perilous and fair, ancient and modern, luminous and powerful -- The history of scholarship on female characters in J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium: a feminist bibliographic essay -- The missing women: J. R. R. Tolkien's lifelong support for women's higher education -- She-who-must-not-be-ignored: gender and genre in The Lord of the rings and the Victorian boys' book -- The feminine principle in Tolkien -- Tolkien's females and the defining of power -- Power in Arda: sources, uses and misuses -- The fall and repentance of Galadriel -- Luthien Tinuviel and bodily desire in the Lay of Leithian -- The power of pity and tears: the evolution of Nienna in the legendarium -- At home and abroad: Eowyn's two-fold figuring as war bride in The Lord of the rings -- The Valkyrie reflex in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the rings: Galadriel, Shelob, Eowyn, and Arwen -- Speech and silence in The Lord of the rings: medieval romance and the transitions of Eowyn -- Hidden in plain view: strategizing unconventionality in Shakespeare's and Tolkien's portraits of women -- Finding ourselves in the (un)mapped lands: Women's reparative readings of the The Lord of the rings.
  note: edited by Janet Brennan Croft and Leslie A. Donovan.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel)
      name part: 1892-1973
    topic: Characters
    topic: Women
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel)
      name part: 1892-1973
    topic: Criticism and interpretation
  subject:
    topic: Women in literature
  classification: PR6039.O32 Z77 2015
  identifier: 9781887726016
  identifier: 1887726012
  identifier: 15/16
  record info:
    record content source: OUF
    record creation date: 150211
    record change date: 20151206125811.0
    record identifier: in00003519732
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng