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Alice in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll.

Authors :
Heydt, Bruce
Source :
British Heritage. Sep2005, Vol. 26 Issue 4, p62-166. 2/3p. 1 Color Photograph.
Publication Year :
2005

Abstract

The article presents information on the book "Alice in Wonderland," by Lewis Carroll. Within the pages of Lewis Carroll's signature novel, "Alice in Wonderland," the worlds above and below the famous rabbit hole nowhere intersect. Above the hole the reader finds calm and order, bright sunlight and the gently flowing Thames. Down below, the laws of nature and logic have been turned on their heads. For a century and more, children have enjoyed the sheer silliness of Wonderland's residents, but to the initiated they are a wry reflection of Carroll's Victorian-era England, or at least Victorian England as Carroll himself perceived it. Carroll himself was something of a square peg in Victorian Britain's round hole, and he viewed the world into which he had fallen, through no fault of his own, as a Wonderland in many ways no more strange than Alice's.

Subjects

Subjects :
*RABBITS
*RESIDENTS
*HOLES

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
01952633
Volume :
26
Issue :
4
Database :
Academic Search Index
Journal :
British Heritage
Publication Type :
Periodical
Accession number :
17340295