In 1950, Clive Staples Lewis published the first in a series of allegorical children's stories that became ""The Chronicles of Narnia"". The now vastly popular ""Chronicles"" are a widely known testament to the religious and moral principles that Lewis embraced in his later life. What many readers and viewers do not know about the ""Chronicles"" is that a close reading of the seven-book series reveals the strikingly effective influences of literary sources as diverse as George MacDonald's fantastic fiction and the courtly ...
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In 1950, Clive Staples Lewis published the first in a series of allegorical children's stories that became ""The Chronicles of Narnia"". The now vastly popular ""Chronicles"" are a widely known testament to the religious and moral principles that Lewis embraced in his later life. What many readers and viewers do not know about the ""Chronicles"" is that a close reading of the seven-book series reveals the strikingly effective influences of literary sources as diverse as George MacDonald's fantastic fiction and the courtly love poetry of the High Middle Ages. Arguably, the two most influential sources for the series are Edmund Spenser's ""The Faerie Queen"" and John Milton's ""Paradise Lost"". Lewis was so personally intrigued by these two particular pieces of literature that he became renowned for his scholarly studies of both Milton and Spenser. This book examines the important ways in which Lewis so clearly echoes ""The Faerie Queen"" and ""Paradise Lost"", and how the elements of each work together to convey similar meanings. Most specifically, the chapters focus on the telling interweavings that can be seen in the depiction of evil, female characters, fantastic and symbolic landscapes and settings, and the spiritual concepts so personally important to C. S. Lewis.
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