FOREWORD & ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; TECH-PLATONICS: THE CELESTIAL FRAME OF REFERENCE; FRACTIOUS SPECIES: RACE AND REASON ON PLANET EARTH; PARADISE REFRAMED: KEEPING TIME ON PLANET VENUS; A SPECTER HAUNTING BRITAIN: GOTHIC REENCHANTMENT ON PLANET EARTH; CONCLUSION; FURTHER TRANSPOSITIONS: LEWIS, VIOLENCE AND THE SACRED; APPENDIX A. "THE DARK TOWER"; APPENDIX B. TABLES FOR CONVERTING PAGE REFERENCES TO CHAPTER NUMBERS; BIBLIOGRAPHY
Sanford Schwartz teaches literature at Penn State University and is the author of The Matrix of Modernism: Pound, Eliot, and Early Twentieth-Century Thought.
"Sanford Schwartz has written what is certainly the best book yet
on Lewis's science fiction. Schwartz is a major scholar of
modernism, and his unique contribution here is to demonstrate that
Lewis's fiction is not a flight from but a considered and serious
response to the conditions of modernity. This book shines a new,
unexpected, and instructive light on the Space Trilogy."
--Alan Jacobs, Professor of English, Wheaton College and author of
The Narnian: The Life and Imagination of C.S. Lewis
"Schwartz demonstrates that the novels of Lewis's Space Trilogy
contain a subtle and imaginative defense of Christian humanism-a
defense that is perhaps as timely today as it was in Lewis's time.
This book should be on the shelf of everyone who wants to read
Lewis well."
--David L. O'Hara, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Augustana
College, and author of Narnia and the Fields of Arbol: The
Environmental Vision of C.S. Lewis
"Sanford Schwartz has given us a seminal study of Lewis's Space
Trilogy. Setting Lewis's work against its early twentieth-century
cultural and intellectual background, Schwartz provides a fresh and
insightful elucidation of the books' sophisticated structures and
themes and their continued relevance in the twenty-first
century."
--Peter J. Schakel, author of Imagination and the Arts in C. S.
Lewis and The Way into Narnia
"A fine example of how to do literary criticism and do it
well...all Christian scholars of literature will be cheered by this
example of solid critical work...all academic libraries should
purchase this very fine book." --Catholic Library World
"We always knew that Lewis was a subtle chess master of the mind;
Schwartz' careful annotation of his point and counterpoint reveals
just how densely packed these textual fugues really are. And, of
course, positioning Lewis as a thoroughly modern man helps in the
ongoing campaign of relevance. In order to apply his imaginative
apologetics to each passing decade, one useful method is to pull
Lewis out of the Middle Ages and Renaissance into today. And
Schwartz
has certainly done that."--Sehnsucht
"While Schwartz's book should be required reading for anyone
interested in C.S. Lewis's thought, its real contribution is
introducing Lewis, in his full complexity, to scholars of
philosophy and religious thought." --Journal of Religion
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