Ransoming the Waste Land

294 pp. bib, index, 4 illus. by the author. Eds. Emily E. Auger & Janet Brennan Croft.
TOC From Here to There: Time, Travel, & Transformation
1. Narnia and the North: The Symbolism of Northerness in the Fantasies of C.S. Lewis
2. "Always Winter & Never Christmas": Symbols of Time in C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia
3. "Halfe Like a Serpent": The Green Witch in The Silver Chair
4. The Holy House of Ungit

Other Places, Other Beings, & Other Futures
5. The "Jasper-Lucent Landscapes" of C.S. Lewis
6. The Green Lewis: Inklings of Environmentalism in the Writing of C.S. Lewis
7. Lord of the Beasts: Animal Archetypes in C.S. Lewis
8. The Bolt of Tash: The Figure of Satan in C.S. Lewis's The Horse and His Boy & The Last Battle
9. Letters from Hell: The Symbolism of Evil in The Screwtape Letters
Nancy-Lou Patterson taught at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, from 1962 until 1992. She was an active artist, poet, fiction writer, and enthusiastic Inklings scholar.