The Making of the Alice Books: Lewis Carroll's Uses of Earlier Children's Literature

By Ronald Reichertz

Book Overview

Analysing 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. 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773520813
• ISBN13: 9780773520813
• Release Date: March 2000
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"