Aspects of Alice: Lewis Carroll's dreamchild as seen through the critics' looking-glasses

By Robert S. Phillips

Book Overview

Collection of critical and analytical essays regarding Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0394723449
• ISBN13: 9780394723440
• Release Date: January 1977
• Publisher: Vintage Books
• Length: 454 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.

Customer Reviews

The title says it all.

There are dozens of Alice versions. Many are accompanied by Critics' opinions or views. But they cannot all fit into a book and maintain a practical mass. Here is the mass left out; it is not to be overlooked. The nine major sections are: Personal and Biographical As Victorian and Children's Literature Comparisons with other Writers Philosophical and Others Church and Chess Language, Parody, and Satire Freudian Interpretations Jungian and Mythic Psychedelic There is also information on the authors, so we know from whom we are reading.

essential for Alice lovers

This book contains a wide range of essays about Lewis carroll's "Alice in Wonderland" Some of them are badly dated, but are nonetheless useful as a way of tracing the development of how we see both Alice and her author. Others are less valuable. As the book dates from 1977, some of the essays which were recent at the time of publication, now don't seem to be saying much, and might well be removed to make way for more modern commentaries. I would like to see a new and revised version of this book. Meanwhile it is still an essential volume for any library concerned with children's literature.