Laura White

The Alice Books and the Contested Ground of the Natural World (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

The Alice Books and the Contested Ground of the Natural World argues that Lewis Carroll used the book's charm, wit and often puzzling conclusions to counter the emerging tendencies of the time that favored Darwinism and theories of evolution and challenged the then conventional thinking of the relationship between mankind and nature. Though a scientist and ardent student of nature himself, Carroll used his famously playful language, fantastic worlds and brilliant, often impossible characters to support more the traditional, Christian ideology of the time in which mankind holds absolute sovereignty over animals and nature.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351803618
• Artikelnr.: 48792928

Autorenporträt

Laura White is the John E. Weaver Professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (USA).

Inhaltsangabe

CONTENTS
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Interpreting Carroll's Satires
2. Carroll and the Emerging Sciences
3. Carroll and Darwinian Satire
4. Animals and Anthropomorphism in the Alice Books
5. Eating
6. Natural History in the Alice Books
Coda
Bibliography
Index