Jan Susina

The Place of Lewis Carroll in Children's Literature

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Produktbeschreibung

In this volume, Jan Susina examines the importance of Lewis Carroll and his popular Alice books to the field of childrena (TM)s literature. From a study of Carrolla (TM)s juvenilia to contemporary multimedia adaptations of Wonderland, Susina shows how the Alice books fit into the tradition of literary fairy tales and continue to influence childrena (TM)s writers. In addition to examining Carrolla (TM)s books for children, these essays also explore his photographs of children, his letters to children, his ill-fated attempt to write for a dual audience of children and adults, and his lasting contributions to publishing. The book addresses the important, but overlooked facet of Carrolla (TM)s career as an astute entrepreneur who carefully developed an extensive Alice industry of books and non-book items based on the success of Wonderland, while rigorously defending his reputation as the originator of his distinctive style of childrena (TM)s stories.

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This study examines the literary impact of Lewis Carroll's children's books on the history of English children's literature. Susina elucidates the cultural content of Carroll's work and situates the Alice books in relation to Carroll's juvenilia, his letters, photographs of children and his attempt to combine children's and adult literatures.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780415936293
• ISBN-10: 0415936292
• Artikelnr.: 21875426

Autorenporträt

Jan Susina is professor in the English Department at Illinois State University, and has served as both the editor and the book review editor for The Lion and the Unicorn.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures Series Editor's Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction 1:
"Respiciendo prudens": Lewis Carroll's Juvenilia 2: Lewis Carroll and the
Literary Fairy Tale 3: The Play of Letters in Lewis Carroll's Alice Books:
Ravens and Writing-Desks 4: Multiple Wonderlands: Lewis Carroll and the
Creation of the Alice Industry 5: Imitations of Alice: Lewis Carroll and
the Anxiety of Influence 6: Too Gaudy or Not Gaudy Enough: Lewis Carroll's
The Nursery "Alice" 7: The Beggar-Maid: Alice Liddell as Street Arab 8:
Coffee or Tea: The Two Nations of Victorian Children's Literature 9: "To
Strike Out Yet Another New Path": Cross-Writing and Boundary-Crossing in
Lewis Carroll's Sylvie and Bruno 10: Alice in Consumerland: The Marketing
of a Children's Classic to Contemporary Readers 11: Cyber Alice:
Wonderland as Hypertext 12: Show Me, Don't (Re)Tell Me: Jon Scieszka
Revises Wonderland Afterword Appendix Notes Bibliography Index