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  1. The story of Alice
    Lewis Carroll and the secret history of Wonderland
    Erschienen: 2015
    Verlag:  Belknap Pr. of Harvard Univ. Press, Cambridge, Mass.

    Following his acclaimed life of Dickens, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst illuminates the tangled history of two lives and two books. Drawing on numerous unpublished sources, he examines in detail the peculiar friendship between the Oxford mathematician... mehr

    Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg
    2015 A 6294
    uneingeschränkte Fernleihe, Kopie und Ausleihe
    Universität Konstanz, Kommunikations-, Informations-, Medienzentrum (KIM)
    uneingeschränkte Fernleihe, Kopie und Ausleihe
    Württembergische Landesbibliothek
    65/10537
    uneingeschränkte Fernleihe, Kopie und Ausleihe

     

    Following his acclaimed life of Dickens, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst illuminates the tangled history of two lives and two books. Drawing on numerous unpublished sources, he examines in detail the peculiar friendship between the Oxford mathematician Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) and Alice Liddell, the child for whom he invented the Alice stories, and analyzes how this relationship stirred Carroll’s imagination and influenced the creation of Wonderland. It also explains why Alice in Wonderland (1865) and its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass (1871), took on an unstoppable cultural momentum in the Victorian era and why, a century and a half later, they continue to enthrall and delight readers of all ages. The Story of Alice reveals Carroll as both an innovator and a stodgy traditionalist, entrenched in habits and routines. He had a keen double interest in keeping things moving and keeping them just as they are. (In Looking-Glass Land, Alice must run faster and faster just to stay in one place.) Tracing the development of the Alice books from their inception in 1862 to Liddell’s death in 1934, Douglas-Fairhurst also provides a keyhole through which to observe a larger, shifting cultural landscape: the birth of photography, changing definitions of childhood, murky questions about sex and sexuality, and the relationship between Carroll’s books and other works of Victorian literature. In the stormy transition from the Victorian to the modern era, Douglas-Fairhurst shows, Wonderland became a sheltered world apart, where the line between the actual and the possible was continually blurred.

     

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    Quelle: Verbundkataloge
    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Buch (Monographie)
    Format: Druck
    ISBN: 9780674967793
    Weitere Identifier:
    9780674967793
    Schlagworte: Carroll, Lewis 1832-1898
    Umfang: 488 S., Ill.
  2. <<The>> story of Alice
    Lewis Carroll and the secret history of wonderland