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.