Selected Scholarship on CSL
by Bruce Edwards

Sundry Essays by Me on CSL

• Not a Tame Wardrobe: 2 Views & They're Both Mine. My review of Andrew Adamson's The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
• A 107th Birthday Tribute to C. S. Lewis, (Updated-previously and often web-anthologized)
• C. S. Lewis: The Gloves Come Off. The New Yorker and New York Times take aim at Lewis and his admirers. See my Nov. 19th blog essay, "The Gloves Come Off. . ."
• C. S. Lewis: Not a Tame Author. All of Lewis's work are in print: what does this mean? See my earlier blog essay, "Not a Tame Author"
• C. S. Lewis and Serenity. What would Lewis's take be perchance on the new S/F movie, Serenity be? Why did he like science-fiction so much, and the genre so appealing? I try to answer these Qs here.
• News Report on my Seminar, "Reenchanting the Cosmos," February, 2004, at the Cove in Asheville, NC (Just had to give you this nice Report)
• C. S. Lewis and the Case for Responsible Scholarship What made Lewis's works so cogent and appealing? Answers here.
• Centennial tribute article for Sunday, November 29, 1998: C. S. Lewis: Mere Christian
• C. S. Lewis: Public Scholar and Christian Written to celebrate Lewis's unique qualities as a teacher and scholar.
• Overview of Lewis's Life and Relevant Sources for Study (I need to update this! See my blog for more up to date comments on scholarship)
• Summary and Analysis of Lewis's Surprised by Joy ; I wrote this for folks who had trouble with this work or failed to see its genius.
• (My fairly uncomplimentary) Review of A. N. Wilson's Biography of Lewis: C. S. Lewis
• (My not so happy) Review of the Richard Attenborough film, Shadowlands
• Lewis Redux: "A Postmodern Dialogue" This is the original, but slightly rewritten in my new book, Further Up and Further In

My Earlier Books and Chapters Published on C. S. Lewis:

• The Taste of the Pineapple: Essays on C. S. Lewis as Critic, Reader, and Imaginative Writer (Bowling Green: The Popular Press, 1988).

• A Rhetoric of Reading: C. S. Lewis's Defense of Western Literacy (Provo: Center for the Study of Christian Values in Literature, 1986).

• "Literary Criticism: C. S. Lewis: Reader as Reluctant Critic" in Tom Martin, Ed., Reading the Classics with C. S. Lewis (Baker, 2000). 330-48.

• The C. S. Lewis Readers Encyclopedia Jeff Schultz and John West, Eds. Served on Editorial Board. (Zondervan, 1998). Wrote/co-wrote 25 entries.

• "A Thoroughly Converted Man: C. S. Lewis in the Public Square" in David Mills, Ed., The Pilgrim's Guide: C. S. Lewis and the Art of Witness (Eerdmans, 1998), 27-40.

• "Toward a Rhetoric of Victorian Fantasy Criticism: C. S. Lewis's Readings of George MacDonald and William Morris," in Kath Filmer, ed., The Victorian Fantasists: Essays on Culture, Society, and Belief in Victorian Mythopoeic Literature (London: Macmillan, 1990).

OTHER USEFUL TEXTS:

• Leadership U Narnia Materials
• C. S. Lewis Literary Chronology
• C. S. Lewis Bibliography
• Gregg Easterbrook's Great "In Defense of Narnia" Post(The Atlantic, October, 2001)
• The Wade Center: A touch of Narnia in Illinois
• Frank Baum's OZ vs. Lewis's Narnia
• Readers cross religious lines for C.S. Lewis
• What Lewis Read
• Interview with Pauline Baynes, illustrator of Narnia
• Virtual Tour of Oxford--Eagle and Child