1st Edition

Critical Posthumanist Readings of Contemporary Screen Reimaginings of Lewis Carroll’s Alice Becoming Alice

By Irene Stoukou Copyright 2026
248 Pages
by Routledge

248 Pages
by Routledge

Journey through the rabbit hole into unexplored theoretical territory as Lewis Carroll's beloved Alice navigates the boundaries between human and nonhuman across literature and film. This ground-breaking study examines how Carroll's Victorian masterpieces and six major screen adaptations (1966–2016) anticipate today's critical posthuman thought. From Victorian scientific debates to contemporary... Read more

Acknowledgements 
List of Abbreviations
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Alice through the Posthuman Glass
Chapter 3 Childhood through the Looking Glass and Becoming-Minoritarian in Jonathan Miller’s Alice in Wonderland (1966)
Chapter 4 Posthumanous Alice: Death as Becoming-Imperceptible in Claude Chabrol’s Alice ou la Dernière Fugue (1977)
Chapter 5 Entangled Materialities, Vibrant Becomings and the Agency of Assemblages in Jan Švankmajer’s Alice (1988)
Chapter 6 Becoming-Heroine and the Technological Posthuman in Nick Willing’s Alice (2009)
Chapter 7 Becoming-Alice in Underland and Greta’s Muchness in the Anthropocene: Disney Reimaginings of Alice (2010, 2016)
Chapter 8 Conclusion
Bibliography
Filmography

Biography

Irene Stoukou is Postdoctoral Researcher and Adjunct Lecturer, School of English Language and Literature, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.