1st Edition
The Alice Books and the Contested Ground of the Natural World
By Laura White
Copyright 2017
266 Pages
by
Routledge
266 Pages
by
Routledge
266 Pages
by
Routledge
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Though popular opinion would have us see Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There as whimsical, nonsensical, and thoroughly enjoyable stories told mostly for children; contemporary research has shown us there is a vastly greater depth to the stories than would been seen at first glance. Building on the now popular idea amongst Alice... Read more
CONTENTS
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Interpreting Carroll’s Satires
2. Carroll and the Emerging Sciences
3. Carroll and Darwinian Satire
4. Animals and Anthropomorphism in the Alice Books
5. Eating
6. Natural History in the Alice Books
Coda
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Laura White is the John E. Weaver Professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (USA).
"Illuminates an often-ignored aspect of Alice’s world." Jenny Woolf, author of "The Mystery of Lewis Carroll" and "Lewis Carroll in his Own Account."
