{"title":"Paul S. Fiddes, Charles Williams and C. S. Lewis: Friends in Co-inherence","authors":"Stephen P. Barber","doi":"10.3366/ink.2022.0160","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/ink.2022.0160","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37069,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Inklings Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44735195","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
One of the most significant instances of renaming in Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, Frodo’s use of Underhill as a traveling name, has not been the subject of scholarly analysis. This article argues that Tolkien may have chosen the name Underhill for his central protagonist due to the specific inspiration of Fr Albert Plunket ‘Underhill’ (1744–1814), the English Dominican priest who founded the eighteenth-century Catholic mission at Leeds and who, alone, prevented the abandonment of the English province by the Dominican moment. Like Frodo, in his quest to destroy the Ring, it was Fr Albert alone who refused to give up hope and persevere whatever the odds. Moreover, like Frodo, Fr Albert and his wider family adopted the use of Underhill as an alias to avoid danger and persecution. This article analyses these and other parallels between the life of Fr Albert ‘Underhill’ in the primary world and Frodo ‘Underhill’ in the secondary, situates Fr Albert’s life in its wider historical contexts, and demonstrates the occasions and routes by which Tolkien could have been made aware of Fr Albert and his pivotal role in the re-evangelization of Protestant England in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
{"title":"An Inspired Alias? J.R.R. Tolkien’s Frodo Baggins ‘Underhill’ and Fr Gerard Albert Plunket ‘Underhill’, O.P. (1744–1814)","authors":"Bradley Buck","doi":"10.3366/ink.2022.0153","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/ink.2022.0153","url":null,"abstract":"One of the most significant instances of renaming in Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, Frodo’s use of Underhill as a traveling name, has not been the subject of scholarly analysis. This article argues that Tolkien may have chosen the name Underhill for his central protagonist due to the specific inspiration of Fr Albert Plunket ‘Underhill’ (1744–1814), the English Dominican priest who founded the eighteenth-century Catholic mission at Leeds and who, alone, prevented the abandonment of the English province by the Dominican moment. Like Frodo, in his quest to destroy the Ring, it was Fr Albert alone who refused to give up hope and persevere whatever the odds. Moreover, like Frodo, Fr Albert and his wider family adopted the use of Underhill as an alias to avoid danger and persecution. This article analyses these and other parallels between the life of Fr Albert ‘Underhill’ in the primary world and Frodo ‘Underhill’ in the secondary, situates Fr Albert’s life in its wider historical contexts, and demonstrates the occasions and routes by which Tolkien could have been made aware of Fr Albert and his pivotal role in the re-evangelization of Protestant England in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.","PeriodicalId":37069,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Inklings Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49068806","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Matthew J. Milliner, The Everlasting People: G. K. Chesterton and the First Nations","authors":"P. Mitchell","doi":"10.3366/ink.2022.0166","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/ink.2022.0166","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37069,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Inklings Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41325922","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dale Ahlquist (ed.), The Story of the Family: G.K. Chesterton on the Only State That Creates and Loves Its Own Citizens","authors":"Susan E. Hanssen","doi":"10.3366/ink.2022.0158","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/ink.2022.0158","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37069,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Inklings Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45066504","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Peter Grybauskas, A Sense of Tales Untold: Exploring the Edges of Tolkien’s Literary Canvas","authors":"Łukasz Neubauer","doi":"10.3366/ink.2022.0162","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/ink.2022.0162","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37069,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Inklings Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44886670","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bruce R. Johnson (ed.), The Undiscovered C.S. Lewis: Essays in Memory of Christopher W. Mitchell","authors":"Josiah Peterson","doi":"10.3366/ink.2022.0163","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/ink.2022.0163","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37069,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Inklings Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43941048","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reply to Davis","authors":"S. Goetz","doi":"10.3366/ink.2022.0156","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/ink.2022.0156","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37069,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Inklings Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42739615","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This articles examines the character arc of Palomides in Charles Williams’s Taliessin poems to see how it brings together several key themes in Williams’s work: Romantic Theology, the relationship of spirit and matter, and the problem of evil. It examines Palomides’s struggle to overcome his own internal antagonisms and allow himself to accept his own limitations, as a model that is salutary to readers of the poems. The article uncovers some of the abstract symbolism that appears in ‘The Death of Palomides’ and demonstrates the coherence of Williams’s use of disparate images in that poem. Lastly, the article asks what the progression of Palomides’s character reveals about Williams’s philosophical and theological attitudes, especially how Williams understood the nature of conversion.
{"title":"Who Is Palomides? Closer Look at the Character in Charles Williams’s Taliessin Cycle","authors":"Joseph Thompson","doi":"10.3366/ink.2022.0154","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/ink.2022.0154","url":null,"abstract":"This articles examines the character arc of Palomides in Charles Williams’s Taliessin poems to see how it brings together several key themes in Williams’s work: Romantic Theology, the relationship of spirit and matter, and the problem of evil. It examines Palomides’s struggle to overcome his own internal antagonisms and allow himself to accept his own limitations, as a model that is salutary to readers of the poems. The article uncovers some of the abstract symbolism that appears in ‘The Death of Palomides’ and demonstrates the coherence of Williams’s use of disparate images in that poem. Lastly, the article asks what the progression of Palomides’s character reveals about Williams’s philosophical and theological attitudes, especially how Williams understood the nature of conversion.","PeriodicalId":37069,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Inklings Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47771742","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The boarding school chapters of C.S. Lewis’s Surprised by Joy have been criticized for their questionable veracity, uneven quality, and disturbing strangeness – not what readers of Lewis normally expect. Identifying Surprised by Joy as a Menippean satire responds to these criticisms and clarifies its message. Its digressions and disjointedness; its encyclopaedic, opaque, densely academic passages; and Lewis’s ambivalent responses to otherwise shocking, carnivalistic events contribute to a deeply unsettling narrative. These would be out of place in milder genres, but combined, they constitute many of the features that give Menippean satire its peculiar identity. On the surface, Surprised by Joy tells the story of Lewis’s reconversion to Christianity. Beneath the surface, Surprised by Joy is a critique of a constellation of ideas and values that Lewis considered threats to truth and intellectual freedom, as witnessed in boarding-school and adult life. The strangeness and harshness of Menippean satire provides an appropriate genre to communicate Lewis’s serious critique about what he believed to be a seriously problematic ideology.
{"title":"Surprised by Joy and the Menippean Solution","authors":"Carrie Birmingham","doi":"10.3366/ink.2022.0152","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/ink.2022.0152","url":null,"abstract":"The boarding school chapters of C.S. Lewis’s Surprised by Joy have been criticized for their questionable veracity, uneven quality, and disturbing strangeness – not what readers of Lewis normally expect. Identifying Surprised by Joy as a Menippean satire responds to these criticisms and clarifies its message. Its digressions and disjointedness; its encyclopaedic, opaque, densely academic passages; and Lewis’s ambivalent responses to otherwise shocking, carnivalistic events contribute to a deeply unsettling narrative. These would be out of place in milder genres, but combined, they constitute many of the features that give Menippean satire its peculiar identity. On the surface, Surprised by Joy tells the story of Lewis’s reconversion to Christianity. Beneath the surface, Surprised by Joy is a critique of a constellation of ideas and values that Lewis considered threats to truth and intellectual freedom, as witnessed in boarding-school and adult life. The strangeness and harshness of Menippean satire provides an appropriate genre to communicate Lewis’s serious critique about what he believed to be a seriously problematic ideology.","PeriodicalId":37069,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Inklings Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44262006","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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