Type of Document Master's Thesis Author Rogers, Jr., Theodore C. Author's Email Address tedrogers@wiseinc.org URN etd-08062007-153431 Title Evil and Englishness: Representations of Traumatic Violence and National Identity in the Works of the Inklings, 1937-1954 Degree Master of Arts Department History Advisory Committee
Advisor Name Title Ian C. Fletcher Committee Chair Jared Poley Committee Member Keywords
- Eroticism
- Englishness
- Gender
- Evil
- War
- Tolkien
- Inklings
- Language
- Lewis
- William
Date of Defense 2007-08-06 Availability restricted Abstract In mid twentieth century Britain, after the experience of total war, evil was not an abstract concept but a palpable reality. How was evil understood, and how did this understanding influence notions of English national identity? This thesis examines the lives and works of C. S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and J.R.R. Tolkien, members of the British literary club Inklings. It probes representations of evil, Englishness, gender and the erotic in their fiction and shows specifically how their science fiction, horror, and fantasy was a response to the moral and human devastation of two world wars. The thesis suggests that the Inkling’s middle brow literature opens a window on a wider sense of uncertainty and longing about Englishness in the eve of decolonization and decline.Files
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