C. S. Lewis on the Final Frontier

C.S. Lewis's celebrated Space Trilogy - Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, and That Hideous Strength - was completed over sixty years ago and has remained in print ever since. In this groundbreaking study, Sanford Schwartz offers a new reading that challenges the conventional view of these novels as portraying a clear-cut struggle between a pre-modern cosmology and the modern scientific paradigm that supplanted it.

Sanford Schwartz teaches literature at Penn State University and is the author of The Matrix of Modernism: Pound, Eliot, and Early Twentieth-Century Thought.

Foreword and Acknowledgments
Introduction
Tech-Platonics: The Celestial Frame of Reference
I.: Out of the Silent Planet
Fractious Species: Race and Reason on Planet Earth
II.: Perelandra
Paradise Reframed: Keeping Time on Planet Venus
III.: That Hideous Strength
A Specter Haunting Britain: Gothic Reenchantment on Planet Earth
Conclusion
Further Transpositions: Lewis, Violence and the Sacred
Appendix A. "The Dark Tower"
Appendix B. Tables for Converting Page References to Chapter Numbers
Bibliography