"Written by the Finger of God": C.S. Lewis and Historical Judgment

Mitchell examines the concept of historicism in C. S. Lewis' works as a literary critic, particularly in his thinking about literary periods as both categorically useful and overly limiting. Among the works of Lewis that were examined include the essay Addison, his address Imagination and Thought in the Middle Ages and his introduction to English Literature in the Sixteenth Century that are significant to the philosophy and technique of Lewis in writing literary history. Also emphasized is the distrusted theories of Lewis on historical change including the Christian ones.