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Lush, I’ve never experienced CS Lewis as being the darling of a great number of academics. In fact, I would say he gets as much (or as little) attention as Tolkien.
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Nobody is embarassed to bring in Lewis into a serious discussion, whether during class, or during a lecture, but the attitude is markedly different when Tolkien is mentioned. This sort of attitude is present at Duke to a lesser degree, but much pronounced in, say, Princeton (at least judging from what the people I have corresponded with have told me). And Lewis
does get more respect, I have suspected this myself based on conversations with my professors, and the good lady seemed to confirm it for me
As a college student, God forbid that I should use this thread as some sort of general insult toward the academia en masse, rather a small protest against the majority's seeming attitude toward Tolkien.
As for medievalism, at this point, I am just relaying directly what was said to me. This was the therm that was used when describing why Tolkien's work is grouped with those that are being "projected against" in the academic world.
lindil, I was recommended Shippey's book as well. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] Perhaps I should lay some money aside?