The Story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and the Secret History of Wonderland
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Following his acclaimed biography 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 Drawing on numerous unpublished sources, he examines in detail the peculiar friendship between the Oxford mathematician Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) and Alice Liddell, the child for whom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. 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.
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Douglas-Fairhurst, R., & Grindell, S. (2016). The Story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and the Secret History of Wonderland. Unabridged. Tantor Media, Inc.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Douglas-Fairhurst, Robert and Shaun, Grindell. 2016. The Story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and the Secret History of Wonderland. Tantor Media, Inc.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Douglas-Fairhurst, Robert and Shaun, Grindell, The Story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and the Secret History of Wonderland. Tantor Media, Inc, 2016.
MLA Citation (style guide)Douglas-Fairhurst, Robert, and Shaun Grindell. The Story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and the Secret History of Wonderland. Unabridged. Tantor Media, Inc, 2016.
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