TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hunt,Peter
TI  - The making of Lewis Carroll's Alice and the invention of Wonderland / 
SN  - 9781851245321 paperback
AV  - PR 4612 H942m 2020
U1  - 823.809 
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - The Bodleian Library
KW  - Carroll, Lewis,
KW  - Carroll, Lewis, 
KW  - Children's stories, English
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Fantasy fiction, English
KW  - Literatura de ficción
KW  - Literatura europea
KW  - Historia y crítica
KW  - Literatura juvenil inglesa
KW  - Siglo XIX
KW  - Novela juvenil inglesa
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Charles and Lewis: 'With a name like yours, you might be any shape, almost' -- Prelude: 'Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?' -- 1. Two men and three girls in a boat -- 2. Before Alice -- 3. What Alice knew -- 4. Outside Charles Dodgson -- 5. Inside Charles Dodgson -- 6. From Oxford to the wide world -- Notes -- Further reading -- Picture credits -- Index
N2  - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' and 'Through the Looking-Glass' are two of the most famous, translated and quoted books in the world. But how did a casual tale told by Charles Dodgson (aka Lewis Carroll), an eccentric Oxford mathematician, to Alice Liddell, daughter of the Dean of Christ Church, grow into such a phenomenon? Peter Hunt cuts away the psychological speculation that has grown up around the 'Alice' books, and traces the sources of their multi-layered in-jokes and political, literary and philosophical satire. He first places the books in the history of children's literature - how they relate to the other giants of the period, such as Charles Kingsley - and explores the local and personal references that the real Alice would have understood. Equally fascinating is the rich texture of fragments of everything from the 'sensation' novel to Darwinian theory - not to mention Dodgson's personal feelings - that he wove into the books as they developed.  Richly illustrated with manuscripts, portraits, Sir John Tenniel's original line drawings and contemporary photographs, this is a fresh look at two remarkable stories, which takes us on a guided tour from the treacle wells of Victorian Oxford through an astonishing world of politics, philosophy, humour - and nightmare
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