The making of the Alice books : Lewis Carroll's uses of earlier children's literature / Ronald Reichertz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reichertz, Ronald, 1933-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children's literature, English--History and criticism.

Children's literature, English.

Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898. Alice's adventures in Wonderland.

Carroll, Lewis.

Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898. Through the looking-glass.

Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898--Sources.

Physical Description:

251 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1997.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Analysing Lewis Carroll's Alice books in the context of children's literature from the seventeenth through the nineteenth century, Ronald Reichertz argues that Carroll's striking originality was the result of a fusion of his narrative imagination and formal and thematic features from earlier children's literature. Drawing examples from a wide range of children's literature Reichertz demonstrates that the Alice books are infused with conventions of and allusions to earlier works and identifies precursors of Carroll's upside-down, looking-glass, and dream vision worlds. Key passages from related books are reprinted in the appendices, making available many hard-to-find examples of early children's literature.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Representative Specific Sources and Analogues

The Battle between Religious, Moral, and Informational Didacticism and Imaginative Literature for Children

“The World Turned Upside Down”

The Looking-Glass Book

Dream Vision

Appendices

(Chapter 2)

(Chapter 3)

(Chapter 4)

(Chapter 5)

(Chapter 6)

Notes

Works Cited

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-85455-0

9786612854552

0-7735-6665-1

OCLC:

929121327