Alice in Space: The Sideways Victorian World of Lewis Carroll

by Gillian Beer

Book Overview

In Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, Lewis Carroll created fantastic worlds that continue to delight and trouble readers of all ages today. Few consider, however, that Carroll conceived his Alice books during the 1860s, a moment of intense intellectual upheaval, as new scientific, linguistic, educational, and mathematical ideas flourished around him and far beyond. Alice in Space reveals the contexts...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226041506
• ISBN13: 9780226041506
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.7" x 9.1"