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Tolkien, Lewis, & Williams, C. S. Kilby
Tolkien, Lewis, & Williams, C. S. Kilby
Mythopoeic Society Seminar Proceedings
A brief, early history of the Inklings: their primary members, their similarities in outlook, and their basic writings.
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Speculative Satire In Twentieth-Century Utopia And Dystopia, Benjamin Craig Parker
Speculative Satire In Twentieth-Century Utopia And Dystopia, Benjamin Craig Parker
Graduate Research Theses & Dissertations
This study integrates the literature and correspondence of such Inklings authors as C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien into the arc of Commonwealth utopian and dystopian literature of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Because utopian authors such as Samuel Butler, William Morris, and H. G. Wells employ the utopian form pioneered by Thomas More but largely abandon More’s Augustinian Catholic view of human nature, their works frequently fail to address the impediments to justice and equity that More satirically addresses in Utopia. Thus, the speculative fiction of later Augustinian Christian authors such as Lewis and Tolkien complements …