The Making of the Alice Books: Lewis Carroll's Uses of Earlier Children's Literature

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Ronald Reichertz analyses the Alice books in the context of children's literature from the seventeenth through the nineteenth century, and argues that Carroll's originality was the result of a fusion of his narrative imagination and formal and thematic features from earlier children's literature.

The book includes discussions of the didactic and nursery rhyme verse traditionally addressed by Carroll's critics while adding and elaborating connections established within and against the continuum of English-language children's literature.

With many examples from 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.

Seller's description:
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. "The Making of the Alice Books" includes discussions of the didactic and nursery rhyme verse traditionally addressed by Carroll's critics while adding and elaborating connections established within and against the continuum of English-language 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.


Product details:

Item number (ASIN): 0773520813
Author: Ronald Reichertz
Dewey Decimal Number: 821
ISBN: 0773520813
Manufacturer: McGill-Queen's University Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 256
Package Dimensions: 76 x 600 x 900 (hundredths-inches)
Publication Date: April, 2000
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Binding: Paperback

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The Making of the Alice Books: Lewis Carroll's Uses of Earlier Children's Literature (Hardcover)