The Making of the Alice Books: Lewis Carroll's Uses of Earlier Children's LiteratureAnalysing 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. |
Contents
Introduction Carrolls Uses of Litterature | 3 |
Representative Specific Sources and Analogues | 13 |
The Battle between Religious Moral and Informational Didacticism and Imaginative Literature for Children | 21 |
The World Turned Upside Down | 33 |
The LockingGlass Book | 52 |
Dream Vision Carrolls Subsuming Form | 61 |
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