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J.R R. Tolkien's The Hobbit: Realizing History Through Fantasy: A Critical Companion is a book by American English studies professor Robert T. Tally Jr., serving as an introduction for readers to J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit, and offering perspectives that The Hobbit is a conceptually "historical" novel. As part of Palgrave Macmillan's Science Fiction and Fantasy series, it was published in September 2022.
- "This guide combines an introduction to The Hobbit’s significance to both Tolkien’s legendarium and fantasy in general with fresh theoretical approaches to the text. Tally uses the tools of historicism, narrative theory, Marxism, and geocriticism (among others) to help the reader better understand this not-so-simple classic of children’s fantasy. His application of these varied theoretical approaches to the enduring question of race in Tolkien’s work is particularly valuable in our current climate."
- —Janet Brennan Croft
- "Tally shows how Tolkien’s first published novel was both anomalous with the rest of his vast legendarium, yet remains foundational within it. An outlying text, then, may benefit from an outlying critical lens, and here Tally deploys his expertise in Marxist and dialectical criticism to read The Hobbit in valuable new ways ― both with and against the grain, as he says ― offering insights into style, narrative form, race, class, historicity, and more."
- —Jason Fisher
External links[]
- Official page
- Barnes & Noble
- Amazon.com
- Author's bibliography at Goodreads