Daniel Binova, "Alice the Child-imperialist and the Games of Wonderland," in Nineteenth Century Literature, Vol. 41, No. 2, September 1986, pp. 143-171.
Reading Alice in the context of Victorian imperialism, Binova argues that Alice behaves as an "imperialist" by attempting to force the behavior of the creatures she encounters to fit the "rules" for such behavior as she understands them. He concludes that Carroll is critiquing the ethnocentric attitude that underlies such an attempt.
Kathleen Blake, Play, Games, and Sport: The Literary Works of Lewis Carroll, Cornell University Press, 1974.
Blake's work examines the many ways in which Carroll's works play with the reader.
Kathleen Blake, "Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson)," in Concise Dictionary of British Literary Biography, Volume 4: Victorian Writers, 1832-1890, Gale, 1991, pp. 111-28.
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