Carroll, Lewis
British Mathematician, Writer, and Photographer 1832–1898
Lewis Carroll is the pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, who was born in Darebury, England, in 1832 and died in Guildf...
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The contributions of Lewis Carroll (Charles L. Dodgson, 1832–1898) to logic consist of several pieces published between 1887 and 1899. The Game of Logic (London, 1887) is a book written...
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Carroll, Lewis(1832–1898)
Lewis Carroll is the pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. The eldest son of a large clerical family, he was born at Daresbury, Cheshire, was educated at Rugby School,...
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The success of the "Alice" books established Charles L. Dodgson's reputation as a gifted writer of children's literature. His admirers expected hu...
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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 excerpt, Wilson argues for a serious critical approach to Carroll's work.
… If Dodgson and his work were shown as an organic whole, his "nonsense" would no...
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In the following excerpt, Sewell argues that the "real world" can be found in nonsense literature, particularly in the Barrister's dream in The Hunting of the Snark.
… Alon...
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In the following excerpt, Greenacre discusses nonsense and aggression as they are manifested in the works of Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear.
This paper will deal with nonsense and its relation to aggre...
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In the following excerpt, Holquist argues that Carroll's work is essential to Modern Literature Studies and that it it exhibits all the tenets of modernism.
Because the question "What is...
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In the following excerpt, Bratton argues that Carroll's work has origins in the Victorian Popular Ballad form.
…. By the middle of the [nineteenth] century the comic ballad world was &#x...
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In the following excerpt, Madden argues that the critically-debated framing poems of the Alice books serve several nineteenth-century literary purposes.
Over the past thirty years Lewis Carroll studie...
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In the following essay, Polhemus explores Carroll's representation of children, suggesting that the idea of using children as subjects in fiction was just emerging when the Alice books were pub...
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In the following essay, Schwab considers Carroll's experimental treatment of language, maintaining that his work anticipates the twentieth-century movements of surrealism, modernism, and postmo...
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In the following essay, Miller maintains that Carroll's two novels aimed at adult readers are constructed according to a highly organized plan and conform to many of the conventions associated ...
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In the following excerpt, Kelly discusses Carroll's poetry, maintaining that his serious verse is of poor quality, while his humorous verse is brilliant.
I Serious Verse
Lewis Carroll's ...
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In the following essay, originally published in 1984, Cohen discusses Dodgson's views on higher education for women and his personal contributions to the education of women and girls in mathema...
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In the following essay, Cohen addresses critical speculation about Carroll's sex life.
A few years ago a well-known writer came to talk with me about Lewis Carroll. He was writing a biography o...
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