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16%OFFGillian Beer - Alice in Space: The Sideways Victorian World of Lewis Carroll - 9780226041506 - V9780226041506
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Alice in Space: The Sideways Victorian World of Lewis Carroll

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Description for Alice in Space: The Sideways Victorian World of Lewis Carroll Hardcover. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 236 x 29. Weight in Grams: 566.
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. What is often overlooked, however, is 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, in Oxford, and far beyond. Alice in Space reveals the contexts within which the Alice books first lived, bringing back the zest to jokes lost over time and poignancy to hidden references. Gillian Beer explores Carroll's work through the speculative gaze of Alice, ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226041506
SKU
V9780226041506
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99-50

About Gillian Beer
Gillian Beer is the King Edward VII Professor of English Literature Emerita at the University of Cambridge. Her books include Darwin's Plots: Evolutionary Narrative in Darwin, George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Fiction and Virginia Woolf: The Common Ground. Named Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1998, she has edited popular editions of Charles Darwin's On the Origin ... Read more

Reviews for Alice in Space: The Sideways Victorian World of Lewis Carroll
The title of this wonderful work
alert and witty in its attention to details, capacious and learned in its opening up of the realms of knowledge Carroll lived among and engaged with
evokes outer space and rightly so. Alice travels underground and through a mirror and beyond any earth we know. But she inhabits other zones, too. She lives in our minds. ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Alice in Space: The Sideways Victorian World of Lewis Carroll


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