Narnia and the Fields of Arbol: The Environmental Vision of C. S. Lewis

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Copyright © 2009 by The University Press of Kentucky Scholarly publisher for the Commonwealth, serving Bellarmine University, Berea College, Centre College of Kentucky, Eastern Kentucky University, The Filson Historical Society, Georgetown College, Kentucky Historical Society, Kentucky State University, Morehead State University, Murray State University, Northern Kentucky University, Transylvania University, University of Kentucky, University of Louisville, and Western Kentucky University. All rights reserved. Editorial and Sales Offices: The University Press of Kentucky 663 South Limestone Street, Lexington, Kentucky 40508-4008 www.kentuckypress.com 09 10 11 12 13 5 4 3 2 1 Frontispiece: Portrait of C. S. Lewis by Elisabeth Ehmann. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Dickerson, Matthew T., 1963– Narnia and the Fields of Arbol : the environmental vision of C. S. Lewis / Matthew T. Dickerson and David O’Hara. p. cm. — (Culture of the land—a series in the new agrarianism) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8131-2522-0 (acid-free paper) 1. Lewis, C. S. (Clive Staples), 1898–1963—Criticism and interpretation. 2. Environmental protection in literature. 3. Environmental policy in literature. I. O’Hara, David, 1969– II. Title. PR6023.E926 Z6419 823'.912—dc22 2008039350 This book is printed on acid-free recycled paper meeting the requirements of the American National Standard for Permanence in Paper for Printed Library Materials. Manufactured in the United States of America. Member of the Association of American University Presses For Deborah and Christina, who supported us, encouraged us, helped us, and refrained from rolling their eyes too often. The feeling about home must have been quite different in the days when a family had fed on the produce of the same few miles of country for six generations, and . . . perhaps this was why they saw nymphs in the fountains and dryads in the wood—they were not mistaken for there was in a sense a real (not metaphorical) connection between them and the countryside . What had been earth and air & later corn, and later still bread, really was in them. —C. S. Lewis, Letters The only imperative that nature utters is, “Look. Listen. Attend.” —C. S. Lewis, The Four Loves ...