Alternative Alices: Visions and Revisions of Lewis Carroll's Alice Books
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After the publication of Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, a lot of imitations, revisions, and parodies of Carroll's fantasies for children were produced. In this anthology, Carolyn Sigler gathers twenty of the most interesting and original of these responses to the Alice books, many of them long out of print.
Alternately satiric, enchanting, experimental, and subversive, these Alice-inspired works reveal how variously Carroll's books were read, re-inscribed, and resisted in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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" Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking Glass (1871) are among the most enduring works in the English language. In the decades following their publication, writers on both sides of the Atlantic produced no fewer than two hundred imitations, revisions, and parodies of Carroll's fantasies for children. Carolyn Sigler has gathered the most interesting and original of these responses to the Alice books, many of them long out of print. Produced between 1869 and 1930, these works trace the extraordinarily creative, and often critical, response of diverse writers. These writers -- male and female, radical and conservative -- appropriated Carroll's structures, motifs, and themes in their Alice-inspired works in order to engage in larger cultural debates. Their stories range from Christina Rossetti's angry subversion of Alice's adventures, Speaking Likenesses (1874), to G.E. Farrow's witty fantasy adventure, The Wallypug of Why (1895), to Edward Hope's hilarious parody of social and political foibles, Alice in the Delighted States (1928). Anyone who has ever followed Alice down the rabbit hole will enjoy the adventures of her literary siblings in the wide Wonderland of the human imagination.
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Item number (ASIN): 0813109329
Creator: Carolyn Sigler, Editor
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.8
ISBN: 0813109329
Manufacturer: The University Press of Kentucky
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 428
Package Dimensions: 110 x 614 x 913 (hundredths-inches)
Publication Date: September 4, 2009
Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky
Binding: Paperback
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- FROM THE GARDENS WHERE WE FEEL SECUREVirginia Astley.Cult singer songwriter from the early 80s whose family lived in Moulsford Oxfordshire.The village close to Alice Country which inspired her first album,the perfect soundtrack to Alice in Wonderland.An instrumental album with added SFX such as birdsong and church bells. Titles like A Summer Long Since Past and Summer Of Their Dreams.Virginia Astley is,in fact,a reincarnation of Alice and not just because that's her middle name.Her late father was born in Warrington and moved to Grappenhall in the late 40s which is the next village to Daresbury.Since that first album Virginia was to become known as a singer and many of her songs have uncanny similarities with Wonderland and even the real life Alice. In "Tree Top Club" comes the line "I bought you sweets and comics from the grocery shop" which is paralleled in the early life of Alice Liddell.So many others:I Live In Dreams,Nothing Is What It Seems,Over The Edge Of The World.And another parallel in the fact that Virginia Astley was morally sound,and a reminder that "Alice was the most sensible person in a land of freaks" against a description of Virginia Astley as "unaffected by operating in a business not known for many normal people".Virginia long ago found her own turf and stayed in itSo this is another Alternate Alice
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