Tolkien: a political culture analysis about english conservatism

Authors

  • Mara Lúcia Ribeiro de Sousa Universidade Estadual Paulista

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2447-9020.intelligere.2022.199155

Keywords:

Tolkien, Conservatism, Cultural studies, Political Culture, Intellectual history

Abstract

J.R.R. Tolkien, famous author, can being seen as an intellectual part of the dominant political culture of 20th Century England? The objective of this paper is comprehended how traces of the conservatist political culture had developed in Tolkien. The paper uses the Berstein’s concept of political culture and analyses the social networks that were part of the intellectual life to understand the vision of the intellectuals that were part of the same cultural segment that Tolkien. The analyses of the biography of Humphrey Carpenter and of several letters will prove that the author was part of the English conservative political culture.

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2022-10-27

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Tolkien: a political culture analysis about english conservatism . (2022). Intelligere, 13, 217-236. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2447-9020.intelligere.2022.199155