Journal of Inklings Studies

16/04/2024

We are pleased to announce the publication of the latest issue (14.1) of the Journal of Inklings Studies.

Article abstracts and the full text of all book reviews and the issue’s feature article (*) are available to all at our Edinburgh University Press web page (https://www.euppublishing.com/loi/ink), where subscribers can read or download the full contents of the issue.

Thank you to all our authors, contributors, and readers.

We hope that you enjoy our latest issue and welcome your comments ([email protected]).

ARTICLES
• Brian Gregor, Becoming Psyche: The Stoic Way and the Platonic Way in Till We Have Faces (*)
• Isaac Augustine Morales, OP, ‘He seems to be at the back of all the stories’: The Subtlety of Narnian Providence
• Joe Ricke, ‘Text Corruptions’ Corruption: Restoring C.S. Lewis’s Critical Satire
• Andoni Cossio, The Unpublished ‘Mód Þrýþe Ne Wæg’ by C.S. Lewis: A Critical Edition

NOTES & QUERIES
• Jason Lepojärvi, C.S. Lewis on Female Scholars: A Reply to John D. Rateliff

REVIEWS
• Adam Edward Carnehl, The Artist as Divine Symbol: Chesterton’s Theological Aesthetic. Review by Brandon Schneeberger.
• Janka Kascakova and David Levente Palatinus (eds), J.R.R. Tolkien in Central Europe: Contexts, Directions, and the Legacy. Review by Łukasz Neubauer.
• David J. Kendall, Music of the Spheres in the Western Imagination. Review by Sarah Moerman.
• Stuart D. Lee (ed.), A Companion to J.R.R. Tolkien, 2nd edn. Review by Holly Ordway.
• Landon Loftin and Max Leyf, What Barfield Thought: An Introduction to the Work of Owen Barfield. Review by Jacob Sherman.
• Holly Ordway, Tolkien’s Faith: A Spiritual Biography. Review by Raymond Edwards.
• Richard Ovenden and Catherine McIlwaine (eds), The Great Tales Never End: Essays in Memory of Christopher Tolkien. Review by Giuseppe Pezzini.
• James E. Siburt, Myth, Magic, and Power in Tolkien’s Middle-earth: Developing a Model for Understanding Power and Leadership. Review by Michael Thames.
• K. Alan Snyder and Jamin Metcalf, Many Times and Many Places: C.S. Lewis and the Value of History. Review by Philip Irving Mitchell.
• Hamish Williams, J.R.R. Tolkien’s Utopianism and the Classics. Review by Elena Sofia Capra.

08/01/2024

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01/12/2023

We are pleased to announce the publication of the latest issue (13.2) of the Journal of Inklings Studies.

Article abstracts and the full text of all book reviews and the issue’s feature article (*) are available at our Edinburgh University Press web page (https://www.euppublishing.com/loi/ink), where subscribers can read or download the full contents of the issue.

Thank you to all our authors, contributors, and readers.

We hope that you enjoy our latest issue and welcome your comments ([email protected]).

ANNOUNCEMENT
• The C.S. Lewis Correspondence Project

ARTICLES
• Dennis Wilson Wise, Carved in Granite: C.S. Lewis’s Revivalism in The Nameless Isle
• Conrad van Dijk, Survival or Revival?: C.S. Lewis’s Medievalism in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
• Nathan Fayard, Prometheus on Perelandra: The Inversion of the Satanic Hero in C.S. Lewis’s Perelandra
• Arend Smilde, The First and Lowest Operation of Pain: C.S. Lewis and His Image of ‘God’s Megaphone’ for Human Suffering
• Sarah R.A. Waters, with A.T. Reyes, ‘De Arca Noe’: An Early Lewis-Barfield Collaboration

REVIEWS
• William Blissett, The Porpoise and the Otter: The Literary Friendship of Max Beerbohm and G. K. Chesterton. Review by Daniel Gabelman.
• Austin M. Freeman, Tolkien Dogmatics: Theology through Mythology with the Maker of Middle-earth. Review by Lisa Coutras.
• Yanick Imbert, From Imagination to Faërie: Tolkien’s Thomist Fantasy. Review by Siobhan Maloney Latar.
• Don W. King, Inkling, Historian, Soldier, and Brother: A Life of Warren Hamilton Lewis. Review by Bruce R. Johnson.
• Mark McGivern, Tolkien’s Hidden Pictures: Anthroposophy and the Enchantment in Middle-Earth. Review by J.H. Taylor and Leslie A. Taylor.
• José María Miranda Boto, Law, Government, and Society in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Works. Review by Mary M. Keys.
• Harry Lee Poe, The Completion of C. S. Lewis: From War to Joy (1945–1963). Review by Mark S.M. Scott.
• Dorothy L. Sayers, The Man Born to be King. Wade Annotated Edition. Edited by Kathryn Wehr. Review by Christine A. Colón.
• Charlie Starr, The Lion’s Country. C. S. Lewis’s Theory of the Real. With a foreword by Diana Pavlac Glyer. Review by Norbert Feinendegen.
• Jessica Hooten Wilson, Reading for the Love of God: How to Read as a Spiritual Practice. Review by Carla Arnell.

01/09/2023

A call for proposals that may be of interest, courtesy of Joe Ricke ([email protected]):

CALL FOR PROPOSALS
C. S. Lewis and the Middle Ages Sessions
for International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 9-11, 2024.

SESSION #1 Planets? Narnia? (Re)Considering the Heavens
Description: Twenty years after first unveiling his thesis that the seven Narnia Chronicles may be explained, at least in part, by a secret code linking each novel to one of the planets of medieval cosmology, Michael Ward's "Narnia Code" has apparently silenced most of his doubters and critics. So much so that new theories about other works are praised as "doing for X what Michael Ward has done for Narnia." This session seeks a panel of scholarly papers which will reconsider Ward's scheme – resisting, reaffirming, reorienting, and/or revitalizing the planetary argument and, more broadly, Narnia scholarship.

SESSION #2 Lewis and the Amazons
Description: Despite abundant criticism of his definition (creation?) of the beloved mastermistress of "courtly love," when rendering female heroism (and sometimes villainy), C. S. Lewis often turned to other sources. From his extended discussion of Spenser's Britomart in 'The Allegory of Love', to the bow and arrow and hunting horn of Queen Susan the (not-so-) Gentle, to, most famously, Queen Orual in 'Till We Have Faces', Lewis often imagines female heroism using the myth of the Amazon warrior woman for his model. This session will explore this rarely-noted aspect of Lewis's imagination and its relevance to his critical and creative works.

DEADLINE for Submissions: Friday, September 15, 2023

All proposals must be made through the official conference portal.

Feel free, however, to write Joe Ricke with an idea, an abstract, or any questions.

Below you will find the link to the conference call for papers. Click on “Special and Sponsored Sessions of Papers,” then scroll down to the two “C. S. Lewis and the Middle Ages” buttons and follow the directions for entering a proposal.

The International Congress on Medieval Studies is one of the world’s great scholarly conferences, with an incredible array of scholarly papers, keynotes, performances, and a couple thousand good friends. It’s also one of the most affordable conferences you will ever attend. And … the book display. As well as Dante, Chaucer, Marie de France, Beowulf, etc., there are sessions on drama, music, Tolkien (*see below), Lewis, Shakespeare, gaming, contemplative prayer, Franciscan spiritual practice, monastic scholarship, and so much more. And of course, the Friday night singalong, led by Joe Ricke.

Hope to see some new faces next year at our C. S. Lewis sessions.

Joe Ricke, C. S. Lewis and the Middle Ages

*TOLKIEN SESSIONS

Alternative Medievalisms against the Tolkienian Tradition (virtual)
Sponsoring Organization: Tales after Tolkien Society
Organizer: Geoffrey B. Elliott

Disability and Tolkien's Medievalisms (virtual)
Sponsoring Organization: Tolkien at Kalamazoo
Co-sponsoring Organization: Society for the Study of Disability in the Middle Ages
Organizer: Kit L. Richards
Contact: [email protected]

Flora, Fauna, and Fantasy: Medieval Poets and J. R. R. Tolkien (virtual)
Sponsoring Organization: International Pearl-Poet Society
Co-sponsoring Organization: Tolkien at Kalamazoo
Organizer: Jane Beal
Contact: [email protected]

Here Be Dragons: Tolkien at the Medieval Margins (virtual)
Sponsoring Organization: Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic, Univ. of Glasgow
Co-sponsoring Organization: Tolkien at Kalamazoo
Organizer: Dimitra Fimi

Problematic Medievalisms and Tolkien's Legendarium (A Roundtable) (in person)
Sponsoring Organization: Tolkien at Kalamazoo
Organizer: Christopher Vaccaro
Contact: [email protected]

Tolkien and "The Battle of Maldon" (in person)
Sponsoring Organization: Tolkien at Kalamazoo
Organizer: Yvette Kisor
Contact: [email protected]

Tolkien and Twenty-First Century Challenges (A Roundtable) (virtual)
Sponsoring Organization: Tales after Tolkien Society
Organizer: Geoffrey B. Elliott

Tolkien's Leeds Legacy: A Reconsideration of His Work as a Medievalist (in person)
Sponsoring Organization: Tolkien at Kalamazoo
Organizer: Yvette Kisor
Contact: [email protected]

Conference link: https://icms.confex.com/icms/2024/cfp.cgihttps://icms.confex.com/icms/2024/cfp.cgi?fbclid=IwAR0KmFs60_QGPfNrFvms12MHSuxUOna44jiT3vRr_l7OmPdRbPFe-Ob_ejo

Call for Papers

21/04/2023

We are pleased to announce the publication of the April 2023 issue (13.1) of the Journal of Inklings Studies.

Article abstracts and the full text of all book reviews and the issue’s feature article (*) are available at our Edinburgh University Press web page (https://www.euppublishing.com/loi/ink), where subscribers can read or download the full contents of the issue.

Thank you to all our authors, contributors, and readers.

We hope that you enjoy our latest issue and welcome your comments ([email protected]).

ARTICLES
1. William H. Johnston, The Conversions of C.S. Lewis: Notes on Rethinking Their Chronology and Character *open-access feature article
2. Reggie Weems, The Soul of a Name: Finding Jacksie
3. Sharon Jones, The Shortest Way Home? A Geo-critical Return to C.S. Lewis’s Prince Caspian
4. Pamina Fernández Camacho, Elven-Latin and Semitic Adûnaic: Linguistic, Religious, and Political Strife in Tolkien’s Island of Númenor
5. Landon Loftin, A Note on Owen Barfield on Abortion and the Founding of the SPUC

REVIEWS
1. Warwick Ball, East of the Wardrobe: The Unexpected Worlds of C.S. Lewis. Review by Mark J. Edwards.
2. Jason M. Baxter, The Medieval Mind of C.S. Lewis: How Great Books Shaped a Great Mind. Review by Conrad van Dijk.
3. Gene Callahan and Kenneth B. McIntyre (eds), Critics of Enlightenment Rationalism and Critics of Enlightenment Rationalism Revisited. Review by Germaine Paulo Walsh.
4. James Como, Mystical Perelandra: My Lifelong Reading of C.S. Lewis and His Favorite Book. Review by Michael Weingrad.
5. Giovanni Carmine Costabile, The Road to Fair Elfland: Tolkien on Fairy Stories: An Extended Commentary. Review by Fabian Quevedo da Rocha.
6. Leonard J. DeLorenzo (ed.), The Chronicles of Transformation: A Spiritual Journey with C.S. Lewis. Review by Nancy Enright.
7. Joseph Pearce, Faith of our Fathers: A History of True England. Review by David Pickering.
8. Nuno Simôes Rodrigues, Martin Simonson, Angélica Varandas (eds), Nólë Hyarmenillo: An Anthology of Iberian Scholarship on Tolkien. Review by Eduardo Segura.
9. John Rosegrant, Tolkien, Enchantment, and Loss: Steps on the Developmental Journey. Review by Ivano Sassanelli.
10. Lukas Schepp, Performing against Annihilation: Identity and Consciousness in J.R.R. Tolkien, Richard Wagner and George R.R. Martin. Review by Evyn McGraw.
11. Charles Taliaferro, A Narnian Vision of the Atonement: A Defense of the Ransom Theory. Review by Steven P. Mueller.
12. J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fall of Númenor. Review by Hamish Williams.
13. C.R. Wiley, In the House of Tom Bombadil. Review by Mark Atherton.

07/10/2022

We are pleased to announce the publication of the latest issue (12.2) of the Journal of Inklings Studies, which includes, among much else, a previously unpublished letter by C.S. Lewis that probingly comments upon both everyday and eschatological facets of the body-soul relation.

Article abstracts and the full text of all book reviews are available at our Edinburgh University Press web page (https://www.euppublishing.com/loi/ink), where subscribers can read or download the full contents of the issue.

Thank you to all our authors, contributors, and readers.

We hope that you enjoy our latest issue and welcome your comments ([email protected]).

ARTICLES
1. Carrie Birmingham, Surprised by Joy and the Menippean Solution
2. Bradley Buck, An Inspired Alias? J.R.R. Tolkien’s Frodo Baggins ‘Underhill’ and Fr Gerard Albert Plunket ‘Underhill’, O.P. (1744–1814)
3. Joseph Thompson, Who Is Palomides? A Closer Look at the Character in Charles Williams’s Taliessin Cycle
4. Richard Brian Davis, Was C.S. Lewis a Rational Determinist?
5. Stewart Goetz, Reply to Davis
6. C.S. Lewis, Letter to Elizabeth Monro, 30 November 1948

REVIEWS
1. Dale Ahlquist (ed.), The Story of the Family: G.K. Chesterton on the Only State That Creates and Loves Its Own Citizens. Review by Susan Hanssen.
2. P.H. Brazier, A Hebraic Inkling: C. S. Lewis on Judaism and the Jews. Review by Leslie Baynes.
3. Paul S. Fiddes, Charles Williams and C. S. Lewis: Friends in Co-inherence. Review by Stephen Barber.
4. Michael Fox, Following the Formula in ‘Beowulf’, ‘Örvar-Odds saga’, and Tolkien. Review by Anine Olsen Englund.
5. Peter Grybauskas, A Sense of Tales Untold: Exploring the Edges of Tolkien’s Literary Canvas. Review by Łukasz Neubauer.
6. Bruce R. Johnson (ed.), The Undiscovered C.S. Lewis: Essays in Memory of Christopher W. Mitchell. Review by Josiah Peterson.
7. Joseph Kohm Jr., The Unknown Garden of Another’s Heart: The Surprising Friendship between C.S. Lewis and Arthur Greeves. Review by Brenton D.G. Dickieson.
8. Amber Lehning, The Map of Wilderland: Ecocritical Reflections on Tolkien’s Myth of Wilderness. Review by David Bernabé.
9. Matthew J. Milliner, The Everlasting People: G. K. Chesterton and the First Nations. Review by Philip Irving Mitchell.
10. Harry Lee Poe, The Making of C.S. Lewis: From Atheist to Apologist (1918–1945). Review by J. Scott Jackson.
11. David Rozema, Inklings of Things Unseen: Philosophical Essays on Literature. Review by Justin Keena.
12. Jessica Hooten Wilson, The Scandal of Holiness: Renewing Your Imagination in the Company of Literary Saints. Review by Carla Arnell.

02/05/2022

We are pleased to announce the publication of the latest issue (12.1) of the Journal of Inklings Studies.

Article abstracts and the full text of all book reviews and the issue’s feature article (*) are available at our Edinburgh University Press web page (https://www.euppublishing.com/loi/ink), where subscribers can read or download the full contents of the issue.

Thank you to all our authors and contributors.

We hope that you enjoy our latest issue and welcome your comments ([email protected]).



ARTICLES
[1] ‘Categorising C.S. Lewis’s Literary Theory’ by Justin Keena
[2] ‘In Search of Greybeards at Play; or, Why Did Chesterton Conceal His Jesting Sages?’ by Daniel Gabelman
[3] ‘Education, Gift, and Freedom: C.S. Lewis’s Idea of a University’ by Melinda Nielsen and Philip Nielsen
[4] ‘Owen Barfield’s This Ever Diverse Pair as an Apology for the Coleridgean Imagination’ by Jake Grefenstette
[5] ‘Enchanted Eating and Bacchic Beverages: A Jovial Note on Meals in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe’ by Jieun Lee and Jonathon Lookadoo
[6] ‘Chesterton’s Epistemology: A Study in the Development of Newman’s Doctrines’ by David Pickering
[7] ‘C.S. Lewis as a Research Supervisor’ by A.C. Spearing *open-access feature for issue 12.1

REVIEWS
[1] Jewel Spears Brooker, T.S. Eliot’s Dialectical Imagination. Review by Jeffrey Hipolito.
[2] Nancy Bunting and Seamus Hamill-Keays, The Gallant Edith Bratt: J.R.R. Tolkien’s Inspiration. Review by Giovanni Carmine Costabile.
[3] Verlyn Flieger, There Would Always Be a Fairy Tale: More Essays on Tolkien. Review by Simon J. Cook.
[4] Monika B. Hilder, Sara L. Pearson, and Laura N. Van D**e (eds), The Inklings and Culture: A Harvest of Scholarship from the Inklings Institute of Canada. Review by Sørina Higgins.
[5] Richard Ingrams, The Sins of G.K. Chesterton. Review by David Pickering.
[6] Thomas Kullmann and Dirk Siepmann, Tolkien as a Literary Artist: Exploring Rhetoric, Language and Style in ‘The Lord of the Rings’. Review by Allan Turner.
[7] C.S. Lewis, Spirits in Bo***ge: A Cycle of Lyrics. Review by Elizabeth Hadaway.
[8] J.R.R. Tolkien, The Nature of Middle-earth: Late Writings on the Lands, Inhabitants, and Metaphysics of Middle-earth. Review by Thomas Honegger.
[9] Douglas Wilson, The Light from Behind the Sun: A Reformed and Evangelical Appreciation of C.S. Lewis. Review by Louis Markos.
[10] John D. Rateliff (ed.), A Wilderness of Dragons: Essays in Honor of Verlyn Flieger. Review by Hamish Williams.