Gold on the Horizon by Jem Bloomfield
Gold on the Horizon is an enthralling companion for readers revisiting C. S. Lewis' s classic Narnia tales Prince Caspian and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. With fascinating detail and bewitching diversion, it maps these two novels' myriad literary influences and cultural allusions to enhance our understanding of their deeper meanings and themes.
'Pretty well nobody has read all that CS. Lewis read, and so pretty well everybody will have missed all kinds of echoes and allusions in the Narnia books. Jem Bloomfield continues his journey through the series, opening up the rich hinterland of Lewis's wonderful imagination with enthusiasm and an impressively wide familiarity with Lewis's inner world, from the Classics to the school stories of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. A real delight, and full of illumination.' -- Rowan Williams
‘Gold on the Horizon is a compelling exploration of C. S. Lewis’s Prince Caspian and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader as novels burdened with the weight of the past; Jem Bloomfield skilfully shows how Lewis’s fiction reflected and refracted troubling questions in 20th-century history and archaeology.’ -- Dr Francis Young
‘Following his refreshing study Paths in the Snow (2023), in which he discussed literary, cultural and theological references in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Jem Bloomfield’s new book Gold on the Horizon turns the focus on Prince Caspian and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. Citing influences as diverse as the Sutton Hoo ship burial, and H. Rider Haggard’s novel King Solomon’s Mines, he investigates Lewis’s focus on the deep past in Prince Caspian; while in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader he discovers traces of the Odyssey, the Grail legends, and the hope of a New Elizabethan Age inspired by the coronation of young Queen Elizabeth in 1952. As ever, Bloomfield is never less than thoughtful and thought-provoking, and this latest work is bound to fascinate fans of Narnia.’ -- Katherine Langrish
‘Gold on the Horizon is a compelling exploration of C. S. Lewis’s Prince Caspian and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader as novels burdened with the weight of the past; Jem Bloomfield skilfully shows how Lewis’s fiction reflected and refracted troubling questions in 20th-century history and archaeology.’ -- Dr Francis Young
‘Following his refreshing study Paths in the Snow (2023), in which he discussed literary, cultural and theological references in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Jem Bloomfield’s new book Gold on the Horizon turns the focus on Prince Caspian and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. Citing influences as diverse as the Sutton Hoo ship burial, and H. Rider Haggard’s novel King Solomon’s Mines, he investigates Lewis’s focus on the deep past in Prince Caspian; while in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader he discovers traces of the Odyssey, the Grail legends, and the hope of a New Elizabethan Age inspired by the coronation of young Queen Elizabeth in 1952. As ever, Bloomfield is never less than thoughtful and thought-provoking, and this latest work is bound to fascinate fans of Narnia.’ -- Katherine Langrish
Jem Bloomfield is assistant professor of literature at the University of Nottingham, and a Reader in the Church of England. He is the author of Words of Power: Reading Shakespeare and the Bible (Lutterworth, 2016), Shakespeare and the Psalms Mystery (Erewash, 2018) and Witchcraft and Paganism in Midcentury Women’s Detective Fiction (Cambridge, 2022). He teaches on C.S. Lewis at undergraduate and postgraduate level, as well as running retreats and study days based around Narnia. He runs a weekly extra-curricular session for his university students, which he insists is the C.S. Lewis Reading Group, but the students insist it’s Narnia Club and they’re making badges to prove it.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781915412812 |
| ISBN 10 | 1915412811 |
| Title | Gold on the Horizon |
| Author | Jem Bloomfield |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Darton, Longman & Todd Ltd |
| Year published | 2024-11-29 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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