THE MAKING OF LEWIS CARROLL'S ALICE AND THE INVENTION OF WONDERLAND

Peter Hunt cuts away the psychological speculation that has grown up around the Alice books, and instead traces the historical sources of their multilayered in-jokes and political, literary, and philosophical satire. He situates the books in the history of childrens literature and explores the local and personal references that the real Alice would have understood. Equally fascinating are the rich fragments about everything from the sensation novel to Darwinian theorynot to mention Dodgsons personal feelingsthat he wove into the books...[Read more]