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Literary Criticism English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Making of the Alice Books

Lewis Carroll's Uses of Earlier Children's Literature

by (author) Ronald Reichertz

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Initial publish date
Oct 1997
Category
English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780773566651
    Publish Date
    Oct 1997
    List Price
    $100.00

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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.

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