In Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass,
Lewis Carroll created fantastic worlds that continue to delight and
trouble readers of all ages today. Few consider, however, that
Carroll conceived his Alice books during the 1860s, a moment of
intense intellectual upheaval, as new scientific, linguistic,
educational, and mathematical ideas flourished around him and far
beyond. Alice in Space reveals the contexts within which the Alice
books first lived, bringing back the zest to jokes lost over time
and poignancy to hidden references. Gillian Beer explores Carroll's
work through the speculative gaze of Alice, for whom no authority
is unquestioned and everything can speak. Parody and Punch,
evolutionary debates, philosophical dialogues, educational works
for children, math and logic, manners and rituals, dream theory and
childhood studies all fueled the fireworks. While much has been
written about Carroll's biography and his influence on children's
literature, Beer convincingly shows him at play in the spaces of
Victorian cultural and intellectual life, drawing on then current
controversies, reading prodigiously across many fields, and writing
on multiple levels to please both children and adults in different
ways. With a welcome combination of learning and lightness, Beer
reminds us that Carroll's books are essentially about curiosity,
its risks and pleasures. Along the way, Alice in Space shares
Alice's exceptional ability to spark curiosity in us, too.
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