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Planets in Peril : A Critical Study of C.S. Lewis's Ransom Trilogy
author
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Downing, David C.
publisher
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University of Massachusetts Press
isbn10 | asin
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087023997X
print isbn13
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9780870239977
ebook isbn13
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9780585227009
language
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English
subject
Lewis, C. S.--(Clive Staples),--1898-1963--Fictional works, Fantasy fiction, English--History and criticism, Christian fiction, English--History and criticism, Theology in literature.
publication date
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1995
lcc
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PR6023.E926Z642 1995eb
ddc
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823/.912
subject
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Lewis, C. S.--(Clive Staples),--1898-1963--Fictional works, Fantasy fiction, English--History and criticism, Christian fiction, English--History and criticism, Theology in literature.
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Planets in Peril
A Critical Study of C. S. Lewis's Ransom Trilogy
David C. Downing
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Copyright 1992 by The University of Massachusetts Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America LC 91-34369 ISBN 0-87023-997-x Set in Adobe Garamond by Keystone Typesetting, Inc. Printed and bound by Thomson-Shore, Inc.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Downing, David C. Planets in peril : a critical study of C.S. Lewis's ransom trilogy / David C. Downing p. cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ISBN 0-87023-997-x (pbk., alk. paper) 1. Lewis, C.S. (Clive Staples), 1898-1963-Fictional works. 2. Fantastic fiction, English-History and criticism. 3. Christian fiction, English-History and criticism. 4. Theology in literature. I. Title. PR6023.E926Z642 1992 823' .912-dc20 91-34369 CIP
British Library Cataloguing in Publication data are available.
Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following publishers and agencies for permission to quote short excerpts from works by C. S. Lewis:
Cambridge University Press for The Discarded Images; Selected Literary Essays; and Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature; William Collins for Christian Reflections by the Executors of the Estate of C. S. Lewis, 1967,1980; William B. Eerdmans for Letters to an American Lady, ed. Clyde S. Kilby 1967 by William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company; Harcourt Brace Jovanovich for Letters of C. S. Lewis 1966 by W. H. Lewis and Executors of the Estate of C. S. Lewis; for Surprised by Joy 1955 by C. S. Lewis and renewed by Arthur Owen Barfield, Executor of the Estate of C. S. Lewis; and The World's Last Night and Other Essays, 1958 by C. S. Lewis and renewed 1986 by Arthur Owen Barfield: HarperCollins for The Abolition of Man: Mere Christianity; Miracles: A Preliminary Study; Out of the Silent Planet; Perelandra; That Hideous Strength; and The Weight of Glory and Other Addresses; Macmillan Publishing for Letters to Children, ed. Lyle W. Dorsett and Marjorie Lamp Mead. 1985 by C. S. Lewis PTE Ltd,; and They Stand Together: The Letters of C. S. Lewis to Arthur Greaves, ed. Walter Hooper, 1979 by C. S. Lewis PTE Ltd.; Oxford University Press for The Personal Heresy: A Controversy (1965); A Preface to Paradise Lost (1970); and English Literature in the Sixteenth Century, Excluding Drama (1954); and to Watkins/ Loomis Agency for Essays Presented to Charles Williams, first published by Oxford University Press, 1947; paperback edition 1966, published by special arrangement with Florence Sarah Williams.
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For Crystal
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Contents
Acknowledgments
ix
Abbreviations
xi
Introduction
3
1. "Transfiguring the Past": Lewis's Reading of His Early Life
8
2. "Smuggled Theology": The Christian Vision of the Trilogy
34
3. The Recovered Image: Elements of Classicism and Medievalism
60
4. "Souls Who Have Lost the Intellectual Good": Portraits of Evil
83
5. Ransom and Lewis: Cosmic Voyage as Spiritual Pilgrimage
100
6. Models, Influences, and Echoes
121
7. The Achievement of C. S. Lewis: Assessing the Trilogy
140
Appendix: "The Dark Tower"
157
Notes
163
Bibliography
169
Index
181
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Acknowledgments
My thanks go first to Arthur Lynip, professor emeritus of Westmont College, who introduced me to the Ransom trilogy when I was an undergraduate. Then to Georg Tennyson, professor of English at UCLA, who suggested to me when I was a graduate student that the Ransom trilogy merited a book-length scholarly commentary. After waiting a decade for that commentary to appear, I came to conclude that the task should be mine.
I am grateful to George Blankenbaker, the academic dean at Westmont, for his encouragement and support on this project and for the funds he made available to me to complete my research. Among my faculty colleagues, I wish to thank especially Paul Delaney, professor of English, who I consider the ideal reader for this kind of project. Professors Thomas Schmidt in religious studies and Greg Spencer in communication studies also read portions of the typescript and offered a great deal of useful criticism.
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