C. S. Lewis: Life, Works, and Legacy
Bruce L. Edwards, General Editor
Praeger Perspectives, 2007
Copyright, 2007. All Rights Reserved.
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Volume 1: C. S. Lewis: An Examined Life
Chapter 1
Bruce L. Edwards
An Examined Life: Introducing C. S. LewisChapter 2
Richard V. James
Lewis’s Belfast Childhood
Chapter 3
Richard V. James
Lewis’s Early Schooling: Trials and Tribulations
Chapter 4
Colin Duriez
Lewis and Military Service: War and Remembrance (1917-1918)
Chapter 5
Perry Bramlett
Lewis the Reluctant Convert: Surprised by Faith
Chapter 6
Will Vaus
Lewis in Oxford: the Student Years (1917-1923)
Chapter 7
Will Vaus
Lewis in Oxford: the Early Tutorial Years (1924-1940)
Chapter 8
Will Vaus
Lewis in Oxford: the Later Tutorial Years (1940-1953)
Chapter 9
Will Vaus
Lewis in Cambridge: the Professorial Years (1954-1963)
Chapter 10
Jane Hipolito
C. S. Lewis and Owen Barfield: Adversaries and Confidantes
Chapter 11
Scott Calhoun
C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien: Friends and Mutual Mentors
Chapter 12
Lyle Dorsett and Jake Hanson
C. S. Lewis and Joy Davidman: The Severe Mercies of Late Romance
Chapter 13
Alice Cook
A Grief Observed: Lewis as Diarist
Volume 2: C. S. Lewis: Fantasist, Mythmaker, and PoetChapter 1
Bruce L. Edwards
“Patches of Godlight”: C. S. Lewis as Imaginative WriterChapter 2
David C. Downing
Rehabilitating H. G. Wells: C. S. Lewis’s Out of the Silent Planet:Chapter 3
David C. Downing
Perelandra: A Tale of Paradise RetainedChapter 4
David C. Downing
That Hideous Strength: Spiritual Wickedness in High PlacesChapter 5
Marvin Hinten
The World of Narnia: Medieval Magic and MoralityChapter 6
Margarita Carretero-González
Sons of Adam, Daughters of Eve, Children of Aslan:
An Environmentalist Approach to The Chronicles of Narnia
Chapter 7
Marta García de la Puerta
Cartography and Fantasy: Hidden Treasures in the Maps of The Chronicles of Narnia
Chapter 8
Karen Rowe
Till We Have Faces: A Study of the Soul and the Self
Chapter 9
Katherine Harper
C. S. Lewis’s Short Fiction and Unpublished Works
Chapter 10
Devin Brown
Telling the Truth Upside Down: The Screwtape Letters
Chapter 11
Don W. King
Columns of Light: The Pre-Conversion Narrative Poetry of C. S. Lewis
Chapter 12
Don W. King
Early Lyric Poetry: Spirits in Bondage (1919) and “Joy” (1924)
Chapter 13
Don W. King
Topical Poems: Lewis’ Post-Conversion Poetry
Volume 3: C. S. Lewis: Apologist, Philosopher, and Theologian
Chapter 1
Victor Reppert
The Ecumenical Apologist: Understanding C. S. Lewis’s Defense of Christianity
Chapter 2
Mona Dunckel
C. S. Lewis as Allegorist: The Pilgrim’s Regress
Chapter 3
Joel Heck
Mere Christianity: Uncommon Truth in Common Language
Chapter 4
Greg M. Anderson
The Sermons of C. S. Lewis: The Oxford Don as Preacher
Chapter 5
Michael Travers
The Abolition of Man: C. S. Lewis’s Philosophy of History
Chapter 6
Wayne Martindale
The Great Divorce: Journey to Heaven and hell
Chapter 7
Victor Reppert
Miracles: C. S. Lewis’s Critique of Naturalism
Chapter 8
Philip Harrold
Stealing Past the Watchful Dragons: C. S. Lewis’s Incarnational Aesthetics and Today’s Emerging Imagination
Chapter 9
Marjorie Lamp Mead
Letters to Malcolm: C. S. Lewis on Prayer
Chapter 10
Donald T. Williams
An Apologist’s Evening Prayer: Reflecting on C. S. Lewis’s Reflections on the Psalms
Chapter 11
Mona Dunckel and Karen Rowe
Understanding C. S. Lewis’s Surprised by Joy: “A Most Reluctant” Autobiography
Chapter 12
David Bratman
“Gifted Amateurs”: C. S. Lewis and the Inklings
Volume 4: C. S. Lewis: Scholar, Teacher, and Public Intellectual
Chapter 1
Bruce L. Edwards
The Christian Intellectual in the Public Square: C. S. Lewis’s Enduring American Reception
Chapter 2
Michael Travers
The Letters of C. S. Lewis: Lewis as Correspondent
Chapter 3
Michael Malanga
The Four Loves: C. S. Lewis’s Theology of Love
Chapter 4
Scott Calhoun
C. S. Lewis as Philologist: Studies in Words
Chapter 5
Marta García de la Puerta
The Inklings Abroad: Reading C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien Outside the U. K. and North America
Chapter 6
Stephen Yandell
The Allegory of Love and The Discarded Image: Lewis as Medievalist
Chapter 7
Donald T. Williams
English Literature in the Sixteenth Century: C. S. Lewis as Literary Historian
Chapter 8
Michael I. Edwards and Bruce L. Edwards
“Everyman’s Tutor”: C. S. Lewis on Reading and Criticism
Chapter 9
Greg M. Anderson
A Most Potent Rhetoric: C. S. Lewis, “Congenital Rhetorician”
Chapter 10
Edward Uszynski
C. S. Lewis as Scholar of Metaphor, Narrative, and Myth
Chapter 11
Greg and Jenn Wright
C. S. Lewis and the Media: Cinematic and Stage Treatments of Lewis’s Life and Work
Chapter 12
Diana Glyer and David Bratman
C. S. Lewis Scholarship: A Bibliographical Overview
Chapter 13
Bruce L. Edwards
Valediction From the Shadowlands: C. S. Lewis and the Gospel of Homesickness
