The Screwtape Letters & Screwtape Proposes a Toast

Lewis, C. S. The Screwtape Letters & Screwtape Proposes a Toast. New York: Collier-Macmillan, 1961. London: Geoffrey Bles, 1961. Expansion, as indicated, of The Screwtape Letters (1942).

Theological fantasy significant here for presenting the Devil as not only a gentleman but also a bureaucrat, and in presenting the Underworld as a perversely ordered bureaucracy. See Lewis's Preface, esp. ix-x; see under Literary Criticism the CW essay by M. Abrash on Dante's Hell.[]

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