The Fiction of C. S. Lewis: Mask and Mirror [Paperback]

This book examines the way in which the fictional writings of C.S. Lewis reveal much about the man himself and his quest for psychological and spiritual wholeness. There is new material dealing with C.S. Lewis's political writings, especially the correspondences between his thriller, That Hideous Strength and George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and some new insights into Lewis's attitudes to women.Acknowledgements - Introduction - Lewis's Supernaturalism: Light and Darkness - Good, Evil and the Notion of the Self in Lewis's Adult Fiction - Images of Good and Evil in the Narnian Chronicles - Lewis's Political Fictions - Political Issues in Lewis's Juvenile Fiction - Facing the Feminine: Women in Lewis's Early Fiction - Masking the Misogynist in Narnia and Glome - Women as Saints and Slatterns in Lewis's Shorter Fiction - Bibliography - Index