The Place of Lewis Carroll in Children's Literature
Title | The Place of Lewis Carroll in Children's Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Jan Susina |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 257 |
Release | 2013-02-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1135254397 |
In this volume, Jan Susina examines the importance of Lewis Carroll and his popular Alice books to the field of children’s literature. From a study of Carroll’s juvenilia to contemporary multimedia adaptations of Wonderland, Susina shows how the Alice books fit into the tradition of literary fairy tales and continue to influence children’s writers. In addition to examining Carroll’s books for children, these essays also explore his photographs of children, his letters to children, his ill-fated attempt to write for a dual audience of children and adults, and his lasting contributions to publishing. The book addresses the important, but overlooked facet of Carroll’s career as an astute entrepreneur who carefully developed an extensive Alice industry of books and non-book items based on the success of Wonderland, while rigorously defending his reputation as the originator of his distinctive style of children’s stories.
The Making of the Alice Books
Title | The Making of the Alice Books PDF eBook |
Author | Ronald Reichertz |
Publisher | McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Pages | 276 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780773520813 |
Analysing Lewis Carroll's Alice books in the context of children's literature from the seventeenth through the nineteenth century, Ronald Reichertz argues that Carroll's striking originality was the result of a fusion of his narrative imagination and formal and thematic features from earlier children's literature. The Making of the Alice Books includes discussions of the didactic and nursery rhyme verse traditionally addressed by Carroll's critics while adding and elaborating connections established within and against the continuum of English-language children's literature. Drawing examples from a wide range of children's literature Reichertz demonstrates that the Alice books are infused with conventions of and allusions to earlier works and identifies precursors of Carroll's upside-down, looking-glass, and dream vision worlds. Key passages from related books are reprinted in the appendices, making available many hard-to-find examples of early children's literature.
Alice in Wonderland
Title | Alice in Wonderland PDF eBook |
Author | Lewis Carroll |
Publisher | The Floating Press |
Pages | 112 |
Release | 2009-01-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1877527815 |
Alice in Wonderland (also known as Alice's Adventures in Wonderland), from 1865, is the peculiar and imaginative tale of a girl who falls down a rabbit-hole into a bizarre world of eccentric and unusual creatures. Lewis Carroll's prominent example of the genre of "literary nonsense" has endured in popularity with its clever way of playing with logic and a narrative structure that has influence generations of fiction writing.
Alice in Space
Title | Alice in Space PDF eBook |
Author | Gillian Beer |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 307 |
Release | 2016-11-30 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0226041506 |
An examination of Carroll's books about Alice explores the contextual knowledge of the time period in which it was written, addressing such topics as time, games, mathematics, and taxonomies.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Title | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland PDF eBook |
Author | Lewis Carroll |
Publisher | |
Pages | 212 |
Release | 1899 |
Genre | Alice (Fictitious character : Carroll) |
ISBN |
The Story of Alice
Title | The Story of Alice PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Douglas-Fairhurst |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 497 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0674967798 |
Robert Douglas-Fairhurst illuminates two entangled lives: the Oxford mathematician Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) and Alice Liddell, the child for whom he invented the Alice stories. This relationship influenced Carroll’s imaginative creation of Wonderland—a sheltered world apart during the stormy transition from the Victorian to the modern era
The Mouse's Tale
Title | The Mouse's Tale PDF eBook |
Author | Nick Butterworth |
Publisher | Candle Books |
Pages | 28 |
Release | 2015-02-20 |
Genre | Bible stories, English |
ISBN | 9781781281758 |
Bible stories are every child's heritage and this is an original and fresh interpretation of one of the best-known stories from the life of Jesus.