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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
by Lewis Carroll
Inspired by a boating excursion in 1862, Lewis Carroll's famous story Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was originally intended only to entertain...
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CHAPTER II
The Pool of
Tears
`Curiouser and curiouser!’ cried Alice (she
was so much surprised, that for the moment she quite
forgot how to speak good English); `now I’m
opening out like t...
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Biography EssayLewis Carroll (the Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) was a Victorian nonsense writer for children whose works hold enduring fascination for adults as well. His Alice's Adventures in W...
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The English cleric Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-1898), who wrote under the name Lewis Carroll, was the author of Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. He was also a noted mathematician ...
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Charles Dodgson was the oldest of eleven children in a parish priest 's family. Every member of the Dodgson family stammered including Charles, who was also intensely shy, but these impediments did no...
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Lewis Carroll is actually a pseudonym, the pen name taken by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. Although best known for his children's books, Dodgson worked professionally as a mathematician, studying particul...
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Charles Lutwidge Dodgson was an author, mathematician, teacher, and photographer who is described by Roger Lancelyn Green in Twentieth Century Children's Writers as "probably the most quoted author in...
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Lewis Carroll (the Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson ) was a Victorian nonsense writer for children whose works hold enduring fascination for adults as well. His Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1...
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Self-effacing, yet having an expressive critical ability; reveling in the possibilities of fancy, though thoroughly at home with the sophisticated nuances of logic and mathematics, Lewis Carroll (Char...
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Few writers of fantasy have managed to permeate their own cultures as did Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a mathematician and amateur photographer who wrote children's books under the pseudonym Lewis Carrol...
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In the following essay, originally delivered as a speech in late 1936, psychiatry professor Paul Schilder uses the Alice books to psychoanalyze Charles Dodgson (Carroll), warning that the stories coul...
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In the following essay, Kincaid addresses the complex mix of innocence and aggression in Alice and argues that Carroll's books are, "above all, about growing up. "
In the fifth ch...
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In the following essay, Graham considers the function of the insanity theme in Alice.
One of the most interesting characters in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is the Ch...
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In the essay below, Auerbach considers the genesis and development of the character of Alice.
"What—is—this?" he said at last.
"This is a child!" Haigha repl...
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In the following essay, Gattégno considers Carroll as a children's author and linguistic innovator.
It is not necessary to reestablish Lewis Carroll. Today he is neither unknown nor unde...
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In the following essay, Baum explores the linguistic and philosophical complexities of the Alice books.
When the Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson was buried, in 1898, Lewis Carroll was set free behin...
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In the following excerpt, Mellor addresses the philosophical implications of Alice's world, and compares and contrasts Carroll's "romantic irony" with Seren Kierkegaard�...
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In the essay below, Birns explores the theme of eating and cannibalism in Alice.
Even a cursory glance at Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland will reveal one of its obsessiv...
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In the following essay, Madden addresses the genesis and function of the three poems that "frame" Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass.
Over the past thi...
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In the following excerpt, Thomas explores the themes of power and linguistic mastery in Alice's dreamworld.
I do hope it's my dream and not the Red King's! I don't like be...
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In the following essay, which focuses on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Conroy discusses the connections between Alice's identity as a middle-class Victorian child and her dream exper...
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Krutch is regarded as one of America's most respected literary and drama critics. A conservative and idealistic thinker, he was a consistent proponent of human dignity and the preeminence of li...
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Rackin is known as an authority on Lewis Carroll. In the following essay, he places the Alice books in their Victorian social context.
This study rests on the premise that appreciating Lewis Carroll&#...
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Van Doren, the younger brother of the poet Carl Van Doren, was one of America's most prolific and diverse twentieth-century writers. Van Doren's criticism is aimed at the general reader,...
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Levin is an American educator and critic whose works reveal his wide range of interests and expertise, from Renaissance culture to the contemporary novel. In the following essay, he provides a centenn...
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Rackin is known as a leading Carroll scholar. In the following essay, he explores the theme of chaos and order in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, calling the work "a comic myth of man&...
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In the following essay, Flescher provides a close analysis of the complex "nonsense language" of Alice, concluding that the work "can be read with the freshness of a child or the ...
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[In the following essay, which focuses on a theatrical adaptation of Alice, Jorgens considers the relevance of Carroll's stories to twentieth-century society.]
In his discussion of the fairy ta...
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In the essay below, Matthews considers the recurrence of satire and literary parody in the Alice books.
Criticism of Lewis Carroll's works usually runs to extremes. There is a tough-minded scho...
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In the following essay, Sherer discusses Alice's adventures as representative of the Victorian child's desire to retreat to a secret place in order to establish autonomy.
Victorian novel...
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In the following essay, Sigler provides an overview of the critical reception of the Alice stories over the last century and discusses Carroll's contributions to literary modernism.
It may be t...
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In the following essay, Irwin explores the theme of instability in the Alice stories.
The Alice books are centrally concerned with instability. In Wonderland the heroine suffers alarming shifts of siz...
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In the following essay, Ashbourne examines the semiotic implications of the Cheshire Cat in the Alice stories.
On January 14, 1898, Charles Dodgson, a.k.a. Lewis Carroll, died at the age of 65 years, ...
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In the following essay, Silverstone discusses the similarities between the unconventional language employed by Carroll in his fiction and the “speculative morphologies” practiced by chil...
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In the following essay, Morton discusses the role of memory and nostalgia in the poetry contained in the Alice books.
The afternoon of 4 July 1862, on which the story of Alice's Adventures in W...
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In the following essay, Bivona considers Alice's Adventures in Wonderland as an allegory of nineteenth-century British imperialism.
Few would dispute the claim that Lewis Carroll was fascinated...
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In the following essay, Marret examines the Alice books and The Hunting of the Snark in conjunction with Dodgson's nonfiction work on symbolic logic.
The modernity of Lewis Carroll's lit...
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In the following essay, Hubert uses a study of Alice in Wonderland to discuss the challenges inherent in the analysis of an illustrated text. Hubert compares the illustrations of Carroll, Tenniel, and...
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The trek made from childhood to adulthood is perhaps the longest journey one will ever take, and yet it covers the smallest distance. The main goal of this journey is to find a way to connect your hea...
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My name is Alice which as far as I know would make me a girl, or a female to use the proper word. The most treasured family member is my cat that I named Dinah. Dinah is the great at hunting and kil...
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