Gaining a Face

James Prothero is an independent scholar, novelist, teacher and watercolor painter living in Southern California. He received his BA from Northern Arizona University and his PhD from the University of Wales. His other works include the study Wordsworth and Welsh Romanticism, the textbook The Freshman Writer as Artist, and the novel The Sun is But a Morning Star.Donald T. Williams is R. A. Forrest Scholar and Professor of English at Toccoa Falls College in the hills of Northeast Georgia, and received his PhD from the University of Georgia. An internationally known Inklings scholar, he is the author of eight other books, including Mere Humanity: G. K. Chesterton, C. S. Lewis, and J. R. R. Tolkien on the Human Condition. His writings have also appeared in such publications as SEVEN: An Anglo-American Review, Mythlore, The Tolkien Journal, The Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, Philosophia Christi, Christian Scholar's Review, and Christianity and Literature.

"Gaining a Face: The Romanticism of C.S. Lewis by James Prothero and Donald T. Williams questions the general view of Lewis as a Christian writer and argues that there is a larger Romantic component to his style that many readers overlook. The authors maintain a consistent non-confrontational tone that allows readers, regardless of investment in the subject, access to their subject matter. […] Overall, Gaining a Face articulates a potentially contentious interpretation of the nature of C.S. Lewis' body of work which is commendably defended by Prothero and Williams. Aside from the examination of Lewis' work, the cumulative definition of what it means to be a Romantic author in general is potentially of interest to a wider variety of scholars."—Gary Lindeburg, Weber State University; Rocky Mountain Review, 69.1, 2015