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The Story of Alice - Lewis Carroll and the Secret History of Wonderland (Paperback)
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The Story of Alice - Lewis Carroll and the Secret History of Wonderland (Paperback)
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Following his acclaimed life of Dickens, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
illuminates the tangled history of two lives and two books. Drawing
on numerous unpublished sources, he examines in detail the peculiar
friendship between the Oxford mathematician Charles Dodgson (Lewis
Carroll) and Alice Liddell, the child for whom he invented the
Alice stories, and analyzes how this relationship stirred Carroll's
imagination and influenced the creation of Wonderland. It also
explains why Alice in Wonderland (1865) and its sequel, Through the
Looking-Glass (1871), took on an unstoppable cultural momentum in
the Victorian era and why, a century and a half later, they
continue to enthrall and delight readers of all ages. The Story of
Alice reveals Carroll as both an innovator and a stodgy
traditionalist, entrenched in habits and routines. He had a keen
double interest in keeping things moving and keeping them just as
they are. (In Looking-Glass Land, Alice must run faster and faster
just to stay in one place.) Tracing the development of the Alice
books from their inception in 1862 to Liddell's death in 1934,
Douglas-Fairhurst also provides a keyhole through which to observe
a larger, shifting cultural landscape: the birth of photography,
changing definitions of childhood, murky questions about sex and
sexuality, and the relationship between Carroll's books and other
works of Victorian literature. In the stormy transition from the
Victorian to the modern era, Douglas-Fairhurst shows, Wonderland
became a sheltered world apart, where the line between the actual
and the possible was continually blurred.
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