Literature in English, British Isles | Open Access Articles

Review Of The C. S. Lewis Collection (30 Volumes), William O'Flaherty

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Review of C. S. Lewis, The C. S. Lewis Collection (30 Volumes), ed. by Paul F. Ford, Patricia S. Klein, and Julia L. Roller (San Francisco, 1994-2014). 11,325 pages. Logos Bible Software. $399.95.

Go to article

Review Of The A-Z Of C. S. Lewis: An Encyclopedia Of His Life, Thought, And Writings, Doug Jackson

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Review of Colin Duriez, The A-Z of C. S. Lewis: An Encyclopedia of His Life, Thought, and Writings (Oxford, 2013). 352 pages. $24.95. ISBN 9780745955865.

Go to article

Review Of Milton, Spenser And The Chronicles Of Narnia: Literary Sources For The C. S. Lewis Novels, Nikolay Epplée

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Review of Elizabeth Baird Hardy, Milton, Spenser and The Chronicles of Narnia: Literary Sources for the C. S. Lewis Novels (Jefferson, NC, 2007) vii + 188 pages. $33.25. ISBN 9780786428762.

Go to article

Review Of C. S. Lewis, Poetry, And The Great War 1914-1918, Jos Vanachter

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Review of John Bremer, C. S. Lewis, Poetry, and The Great War 1914-1918 (Lanham, MD, 2012). 244 pages. $39.99. ISBN 9780739171523.

Go to article

Review Essay: C. S. Lewis And His Circle: Essays And Memoirs From The C. S. Lewis Society, David Russell Mosley, Arend Smilde, Bruce R. Johnson

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Three reviews of Roger White, Judith Wolfe, and Brendan N. Wolfe, eds., C. S. Lewis and His Circle: Essays and Memoirs from the C. S. Lewis Society (Oxford, 2015). 273 pages. $29.95. ISBN 9780190214340.

Go to article

“Nothing Beautiful Hides Its Face”: The Hiddenness Of Esther In C. S. Lewis’ Till We Have Faces, John Anthony Dunne

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

C. S. Lewis’ last and arguably best novel, Till We Have Faces, is an impressively nuanced revision and recasting of Apuleius’ short tale of Cupid and Psyche, Books 4–6 of The Golden Ass. Although this ancient myth was the main source for Till We Have Faces, inspiration was no doubt gained from many places. One such influence, previously unnoted, was the biblical book of Esther. This study will note some of the key places where the influence of Esther is detectable, in particular Lewis’ choice of the name “Istra.” This is followed by an investigation into why Esther may have …

Go to article

How Much Does That Hideous Strength Owe To Charles Williams?, Charles A. Huttar

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

do not intend here anything so ambitious as a comprehensive study of the question posed by my title. My purpose in this essay is threefold: in the first section, to augment the case that has been made for one debt to Williams; in the second, to narrow down the demonstrable range of Williams’ influence in another area, that of the Arthurian material in That Hideous Strength; and finally, to point out a commonality in their theory of history that can probably not, however, be considered an instance of oneway influence, but rather an agreement that reflects their shared Christian worldview. …

Go to article

Review Of The Faun’S Bookshelf: C. S. Lewis On Why Myth Matters, William Gentrup

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Review of Charlie W. Starr, The Faun’s Bookshelf: C. S. Lewis on Why Myth Matters (Kent, Ohio: Black Squirrel Books, 2018). 181 pages. $16.95. ISBN 9781606353493.

Go to article

Review Of Inklings Of Truth: Essays To Mark The Anniversaries Of C. S. Lewis And J. R. R. Tolkien, Bruce R. Johnson

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Review of Paul Shimpton, ed., Inklings of Truth: Essays to Mark the Anniversaries of C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien, Grandpont Papers 3 (Oxford: Grandpont House, 2018). 102 pages. $10.09. ISBN 9780952216728.

Go to article

Review Of The Mutual Admiration Society: How Dorothy Sayers And Her Oxford Circle Remade The World For Women, Crystal Hurd

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Review of Mo Moulton, The Mutual Admiration Society: How Dorothy Sayers and Her Oxford Circle Remade the World for Women (New York: Basic Books, 2019). 335 pages. $32.00. ISBN 97815416444472.

Go to article

Review Of Mythopoeic Narnia: Memory, Metaphor, And Metamorphoses In The Chronicles Of Narnia, Charlie W. Starr

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Review of Salwa Khoddam, Mythopoeic Narnia: Memory, Metaphor, and Metamorphoses in The Chronicles of Narnia (Hamden, Connecticut: Winged Lion Press, 2011). 272 pages. $16.98. ISBN 9781936294114.

Go to article

Review Of The Fame Of C. S. Lewis: A Controversialist’S Reception In Britain And America, Brenton D. G. Dickieson

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Review of Stephanie L. Derrick, The Fame of C. S. Lewis: A Controversialist’s Reception in Britain and America (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018). 240 pages. $30.00. ISBN 9780198819448.

Go to article

Review Of C. S. Lewis: A Very Short Introduction, Josiah Peterson

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Review of James Como, C. S. Lewis: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019). 160 pages. $11.95. ISBN 9780198828242.

Go to article

Review Of The Lion In The Waste Land: Fearsome Redemption In The Work Of C. S. Lewis, Dorothy L. Sayers, And T. S. Eliot, Jonathan B. Himes

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Review of Janice Brown, The Lion in the Waste Land: Fearsome Redemption in the Work of C. S. Lewis, Dorothy L. Sayers, and T. S. Eliot (Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 2018). xiv + 290 pages. $45.00. ISBN 9781606353387.

Go to article

The Archangel Fragment And C. S. Lewis’S World-Building Project, Brenton D. G. Dickieson, Charlie W. Starr

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

In this article, we argue that, from a few hints in the Bodleian archive and elsewhere, we have discovered C. S. Lewis’s singular attempt at an Archangelic sequel to The Screwtape Letters. By analyzing this small fragment and its contextual clues, we can hear the heaven-scented voice of this anti-Screwtape world. Through this discovery we can unlock hidden links among Lewis’s fiction project of the late 1930s and early 1940s and the ways he created the speculative worlds of those stories, including a spirit of playfulness and discovery, themes critical to his theological perspective, and potential links that draw his …

Go to article

Review Of Tolkien, Enchantment And Loss: Steps On The Developmental Journey, Jessica F. Lee

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Review of John Rosegrant, Tolkien, Enchantment and Loss: Steps on the Developmental Journey. (Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 2022). 220 pages. $58.99. ISBN 9781606354353.

Go to article

Review Of A Sense Of Tales Untold: Exploring The Edges Of Tolkien’S Literary Canvas, Lauren Spohn

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Review of Peter Grybauskas, A Sense of Tales Untold: Exploring the Edges of Tolkien’s Literary Canvas (Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 2021). $55.00. 176 pages. ISBN 978606354308.

Go to article

Review Of Mystical Perelandra: My Lifelong Reading Of C. S. Lewis And His Favorite Book, Crystal Hurd

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Review of James Como, Mystical Perelandra: My Lifelong Reading of C. S. Lewis and His Favorite Book (Hamden, CT: Winged Lion Press, 2022). 148 pages. $16.99. ISBN 9781935688297.

Go to article

Review Of Charles Williams And C. S. Lewis: Friends In Co-Inherence, Andrew Lazo

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Review of Paul Fiddes, Charles Williams and C. S. Lewis: Friends in Co-inherence (New York: Oxford University Press, 2021). 432 pages. $115.00. ISBN 9780192845467.

Go to article

C. S. Lewis And The Historical Imagination, Jamin Metcalf, K. Alan Snyder

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

What role should the imagination play in historical inquiry? Much has been written about how Lewis’s understanding of the imagination influenced both his literary and apologetic work. However, very little has been said about how his view of the imagination influenced his work as a literary historian. Throughout Lewis’s career at both Oxford and Cambridge, he argued for a unique approach that privileged the role of the imagination both in the study and composition of history.

Go to article

C. S. Lewis And The Personal Opinion Fallacy, Jason Lepojärvi

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Excerpt: "Authors sometimes become targets of critics who mistake the views expressed by their characters, plot, or atmosphere for the views held by the authors themselves. Consequently, as authors begin justifiably to fear that the opinions expressed in their art will be equated with their own real-life opinions, many begin censoring themselves, thus reducing diversity of perspective and diluting vigor of expression. The present essay reflects on this particular form of literary misreading and its contribution to other literary maladies....For reasons that relate to both the nature of imaginative literature and to Lewis as a writer, readers and critics of …

Go to article

War In Heaven: The Archdeacon's Embodiment Of Charles Williams' Coinherence, Germeen Tanas

Student Works

Charles Williams published War in Heaven in 1930, the first of his seven supernatural novels. In War in Heaven, Archdeacon Julian Davenant of Castra Parvulorum is the unlikely hero who embodies calm goodness. War in Heaven’s dramatic arc focuses on a struggle to control the legendary Holy Grail, the chalice that the characters believe Jesus used at the Last Supper, and brutal spiritual warfare. Amid a turning and twisting plot, Williams infuses the text with the theological concepts of coinherence, substitution, and exchange. In pivotal scenes, Williams imbues the Archdeacon’s words and actions with his theological framework. In …

Go to article

The Bard’S Precursors To Psychology: Exposing Dark Sides Of Human Nature, Rebecca Parsons '23

Honor Scholar Theses

No abstract provided.

Go to article

“Henrietta And Harriet:” Considering The Marginalized Best Friend In Burney’S Cecilia And Austen’S Emma, Elena Goodenberger

English (MA) Theses

Although much has been said about the authorial relationship between Frances Burney and Jane Austen generally, there is a gap in scholarship discussing Austen’s Emma in context with the Burney’s Cecilia. This paper argues that there are notable threads—heiresses with absent or inadequate father figures, charity-case best friends, and rushed endings—connecting Emma and Cecilia. Tracing these threads allows us to examine the possible influence of Burney’s writing on Austen and also calls attention to the author’s different approaches to female agency and minor character space. To accomplish this task, I look at the narrative space given to minor …

Go to article

“It’S Alive!” The Birth And Afterlife Of The Gothic Genre, Tanner Linkous

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This thesis explores the development of the Gothic novel in England throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This thesis establishes the Gothic as a literary mode of middle-class terror by analyzing Gothic novels within the historical context of the Industrial and Democratic revolutions. This requires an in-depth understanding of politics throughout both centuries and this thesis engages with several sources such as Maggie Kilgour’s The Rise of the Gothic Novel which adds important context to my claims. Additionally, I use several contemporary sources such as Godwin’s Caleb Williams, the writings of Edmund Burke, and On the Pleasure Derived from Objects …

Go to article

Men, Women, And Italians: The Masquerade Of Narrative And Identity In Richardson's Sir Charles Grandison, Ruth A. Holmes

English Theses & Dissertations

The chaotic masquerades that proliferated during the British long eighteenth century punctuated the period’s preoccupation with order and categorization. The identity categories that the masquerade disrupted, the novel reinforced, or perhaps even created. It was in the middle of this period, in the political center of Britain, that Samuel Richardson published his third and final novel, The History of Sir Charles Grandison (1753), a novel which centers England and was also centered by England, a national treasure entangled in literary and cultural history. Tracing the nexus of gender and nationalism in Grandison then becomes important given the novel’s active entanglement …

Go to article

Steps Toward Healing From The Possessive Other: The Vital Role Of Fantastical Literature In Trauma Theory, Rebekah Izard

English (MA) Theses

Fantastical narratives such as fairy tales and magical realist literature utilizes fantastic and intangible spaces to unpack that which is often beyond the limitations imposed on our understanding by reality: the stunting experience of individual and generational traumas. This study aims to contribute to the current literary discourse’s understandings of fantastic literature and its subgenres as a tool for healing from trauma through the application of ontological notions of Selfhood and Otherness supplied by 20th century philosopher, Paul Ricoeur, and the notion of Orientalism by postcolonial scholar, Edward Said. The dialogue generated by these schools of thought provide a space …

Go to article

‘Where Now Bucephalus And The Proud Eormanric?' The Interplay Of Gothic And Classical References As A Tacit Background Behind The Wanderer, Tolkien's Anglo-Saxon Source, Giovanni Carmine Costabile

Journal of Tolkien Research

The famous lines "Where now the horse and the rider?" from The Two Towers, spoken by Théoden in Peter Jackson's film, but recited by Aragorn in Tolkien's original text, find an unquestionable source in the Anglo-Saxon poem The Wanderer, and as such received detailed comment by the Professor as a scholar, stating that it is not very important to identify who the rider being cited might be, as long as we admit he is a "type". In order to understand the type of this rider, then, we only have to look for similar occurrences of the evergreen "ubi …

Go to article

Review Of Oxford In English Literature: The Making, And Undoing, Of The English Athens, Stephen Barber

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Review of John Dougill, Oxford in English Literature: The Making, and Undoing, of the English Athens (Milton Keynes, 2010). xii + 379 pages. $14.55. ISBN: 9781438976839.

Go to article

Review Of The Lion’S World: A Journey Into The Heart Of Narnia, Nikolay Epplée

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Review of Rowan Williams, The Lion’s World: A Journey into the Heart of Narnia (Oxford, 2012). 168 pages. $13.58. ISBN: 9780199975730.

Go to article

Full-Text Articles in Literature in English, British Isles

Review Of The C. S. Lewis Collection (30 Volumes), William O'Flaherty

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Review Of The A-Z Of C. S. Lewis: An Encyclopedia Of His Life, Thought, And Writings, Doug Jackson

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Review Of Milton, Spenser And The Chronicles Of Narnia: Literary Sources For The C. S. Lewis Novels, Nikolay Epplée

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Review Of C. S. Lewis, Poetry, And The Great War 1914-1918, Jos Vanachter

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Review Essay: C. S. Lewis And His Circle: Essays And Memoirs From The C. S. Lewis Society, David Russell Mosley, Arend Smilde, Bruce R. Johnson

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

“Nothing Beautiful Hides Its Face”: The Hiddenness Of Esther In C. S. Lewis’ Till We Have Faces, John Anthony Dunne

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

How Much Does That Hideous Strength Owe To Charles Williams?, Charles A. Huttar

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Review Of The Faun’S Bookshelf: C. S. Lewis On Why Myth Matters, William Gentrup

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Review Of Inklings Of Truth: Essays To Mark The Anniversaries Of C. S. Lewis And J. R. R. Tolkien, Bruce R. Johnson

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Review Of The Mutual Admiration Society: How Dorothy Sayers And Her Oxford Circle Remade The World For Women, Crystal Hurd

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Review Of Mythopoeic Narnia: Memory, Metaphor, And Metamorphoses In The Chronicles Of Narnia, Charlie W. Starr

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Review Of The Fame Of C. S. Lewis: A Controversialist’S Reception In Britain And America, Brenton D. G. Dickieson

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Review Of C. S. Lewis: A Very Short Introduction, Josiah Peterson

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Review Of The Lion In The Waste Land: Fearsome Redemption In The Work Of C. S. Lewis, Dorothy L. Sayers, And T. S. Eliot, Jonathan B. Himes

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

The Archangel Fragment And C. S. Lewis’S World-Building Project, Brenton D. G. Dickieson, Charlie W. Starr

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Review Of Tolkien, Enchantment And Loss: Steps On The Developmental Journey, Jessica F. Lee

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Review Of A Sense Of Tales Untold: Exploring The Edges Of Tolkien’S Literary Canvas, Lauren Spohn

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Review Of Mystical Perelandra: My Lifelong Reading Of C. S. Lewis And His Favorite Book, Crystal Hurd

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Review Of Charles Williams And C. S. Lewis: Friends In Co-Inherence, Andrew Lazo

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

C. S. Lewis And The Historical Imagination, Jamin Metcalf, K. Alan Snyder

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

C. S. Lewis And The Personal Opinion Fallacy, Jason Lepojärvi

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

War In Heaven: The Archdeacon's Embodiment Of Charles Williams' Coinherence, Germeen Tanas

Student Works

The Bard’S Precursors To Psychology: Exposing Dark Sides Of Human Nature, Rebecca Parsons '23

Honor Scholar Theses

“Henrietta And Harriet:” Considering The Marginalized Best Friend In Burney’S Cecilia And Austen’S Emma, Elena Goodenberger

English (MA) Theses

“It’S Alive!” The Birth And Afterlife Of The Gothic Genre, Tanner Linkous

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Men, Women, And Italians: The Masquerade Of Narrative And Identity In Richardson's Sir Charles Grandison, Ruth A. Holmes

English Theses & Dissertations

Steps Toward Healing From The Possessive Other: The Vital Role Of Fantastical Literature In Trauma Theory, Rebekah Izard

English (MA) Theses

‘Where Now Bucephalus And The Proud Eormanric?' The Interplay Of Gothic And Classical References As A Tacit Background Behind The Wanderer, Tolkien's Anglo-Saxon Source, Giovanni Carmine Costabile

Journal of Tolkien Research

Review Of Oxford In English Literature: The Making, And Undoing, Of The English Athens, Stephen Barber

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

Review Of The Lion’S World: A Journey Into The Heart Of Narnia, Nikolay Epplée

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal