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Alice in Space: The Sideways Victorian World of Lewis Carroll (Carpenter Lectures)
Gillian Beer
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Description for Alice in Space: The Sideways Victorian World of Lewis Carroll (Carpenter Lectures)
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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 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, for whom no authority is ... Read more
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 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, for whom no authority is ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2018
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226564692
SKU
V9780226564692
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Ref
99-27
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 (Carpenter Lectures)
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
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