The making of the Alice books : Lewis Carroll's uses of earlier children's literature /

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"In this inquiry, Ronald Reichertz, drawing examples from a wide range of children's literature, 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....

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Reichertz, Ronald, 1933-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Montréal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1997.
Series:CEL - Canadian Publishers Collection.
Subjects:
Carroll, Lewis, > 1832-1898. > Alice's adventures in Wonderland.
Carroll, Lewis, > 1832-1898. > Through the looking-glass.
Carroll, Lewis, > 1832-1898 > Sources.
Carroll, Lewis, > 1832-1898 > Knowledge > Literature.
Alice > (Fictitious character from Carroll)
Carroll, Lewis, > 1832-1898 > Alice's adventures in Wonderland.
Carroll, Lewis, > 1832-1898. > Through the looking glass
Carroll. Lewis, > 1832-1898 > Sources
Carroll, Lewis, > 1832-1898
Alice's adventures in Wonderland (Carroll, Lewis)
Through the looking-glass (Carroll, Lewis)
1800-1899
Children > Books and reading > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Children's stories, English > History and criticism.
Children's stories > Stories, plots, etc.
Children's stories > Authorship.
Allusions in literature.
Enfants > Livres et lecture > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Histoires pour enfants anglaises > Histoire et critique.
Histoires pour enfants > Histoires, intrigues, etc.
Allusions dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Allusions in literature
Literature
Children > Books and reading
Children's stories
Children's stories > Authorship
Children's stories, English
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Carroll)
Through the Looking-Glass (Carroll)
Ontstaansgeschiedenis.
Great Britain
Electronic books.
Stories, plots, etc.
History
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Sources
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Carroll's uses of "litterature"
  • Representative specific sources and analogues
  • The battle between religious, moral, and informational didacticism and imaginative literature for children
  • "The world turned upside down"
  • The looking-glass book
  • Dream vision: Carroll's subsuming form.

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