"Retracing the steps of a surprising array of twentieth-century writers who ventured into the fantastical, topsy-turvy world of Lewis Carroll's fictions and discovered there the quintessence of their own modernity, this book demonstrates that...
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"Retracing the steps of a surprising array of twentieth-century writers who ventured into the fantastical, topsy-turvy world of Lewis Carroll's fictions and discovered there the quintessence of their own modernity, this book demonstrates that Carroll's influence extended far beyond literary style, pervading all aspects of modern life from commercial culture to politics, from philosophy to the new physics. Recovering a common touchstone between the likes of T. S. Eliot, James Joyce, and Virginia Woolf and writers conventionally regarded on the periphery of modernist studies, such as Sylvia Plath, Jorge Luis Borges, and Vladimir Nabokov, this volume ultimately provides a new entry-point into a more broadly conceptualised global modernism"--
Introduction : twentieth-century wonderlands / Michelle Witen -- 'Speak in French when you ca'n't think of the English': Carroll's French and Mallarmé's English / Alexandra Lukes -- T. S. Eliot's adventures in wonderland / John D. Morgenstern -- Fantastic surrealism : the influence of Lewis Carroll's Wonderland on Transition Magazine's American surrealist literary experiments (1927-1938) / Céline Mansanti -- Alice and the expansion of the American west : modernism, the Northern Pacific Railroad's Wonderland route, and Kate Chopin's The Awakening / Michelle E. Moore -- 'Open Alice's door' : Lewis Carroll's influence on Elizabeth Bishop and Sylvia Plath / Jessica McCort -- Becoming a child : Lewis Carroll and Virginia Woolf's poetics of fluidity and permanence / Teresa Prudente -- 'Reeling and writhing' in Benjamin's Arcades : the curious case of the girl who wasn't there / Lisa Mullen -- 'These tautomeric changes' : the figures of Alice and Humpty Dumpty in the work of W. H. Auden / Allan Pero -- Nightmares of history : modernism and colonialism in Lewis Carroll and Jorge Luis Borges / David Conlon -- 'Sentence first verdict afterwards' : Carroll, Nabokov, and the fragmented body / Yaeli Greenblatt -- 'You're nothing but a pack of cards!' : Carrollian intertextuality and the detective fiction of Dorothy L. Sayers / Ann Martin -- 'The mime of Nick, Mick, and the Maggies'; or, '"Alice" on the stage' / James Williams -- Wasting timelessness : Lewis Carroll, Flann O'Brien, and modernist temporality / Paul Fagan.
