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The Alice Books and the Contested Ground of the Natural World (Hardcover)
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The Alice Books and the Contested Ground of the Natural World (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature
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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 enthusiasts,
that the Alice books - at heart - were intended for adults as well
as children, Laura White takes current research in a new,
fascinating direction. During the Victorian era of the book's
original publication, ideas about nature and our relation to nature
were changing drastically. The Alice Books and the Contested Ground
of the Natural World argues that Lewis Carroll used the book's
charm, wit, and often puzzling conclusions to counter the emerging
tendencies of the time which favored Darwinism and theories of
evolution and challenged the then-conventional thinking of the
relationship between mankind and nature. Though a scientist and
ardent student of nature himself, Carroll used his famously playful
language, fantastic worlds and brilliant, often impossible
characters to support more the traditional, Christian ideology of
the time in which mankind holds absolute sovereignty over animals
and nature.
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