The Making of the Alice Books: Lewis Carroll's Uses of Earlier Children's Literature
by Ronald Reichertz
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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. 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 show more 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. show lessTags
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- Original publication date
- 1997
- People/Characters
- Lewis Carroll; Charles Dodgson / Lewis Carroll; Peter Parley
- Dedication
- For Diane, Marc, and Mathew
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Introduction:
Carroll's Uses of "Litterature"
The extraordinarily large body of critical response to Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wolderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What ... (show all)Alice Found THere is wide-ranging in both critical methodology and focus. - Blurbers
- Mercier, Cathryn M.
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- English
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- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
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