Post by mikeindex on Jan 19, 2010 11:33:57 GMT -5
I don't know if anyone here hs read the new essay collection "Alice Beyond Wonderland", but it sounds as if it might be interesting. They seem to be looking mainly at literary/cultural influences and interpretations and getting
away from biographical ones, and within this sphere to have a laudably wide range of focus.
I haven't myself found the time to read anything but Karoline's foreword so far; I'll be very interested to hear the views of anyone who has, or who does in the near future.
Here's what other people have said about it:
"Alice beyond Wonderland both defines the continuing strangeness of the Alice
books and offers a surprising and fresh reading of the ongoing `work' of
Carroll's writing on Wonderland in the twenty-first century. This fresh
consideration, determined not to repeat the critical tropes of the past,
indicates the ways Alice has crossed cultures and literary, political, and
technological spaces. Hollingsworth deserves our praise for being so bold a
thinker in conceiving this project."—Barry Qualls, author, The Secular Pilgrims
of Victorian Fiction: The Novel as Book of Life
"Alice beyond Wonderland offers an exciting range of new perspectives on the
Alice books, linked around the core theme of space. This impressive collection
will make an excellent and original contribution to the literature on Alice and
Carroll."—Will Brooker, author, Alice's Adventure: Lewis Carroll in Popular
Culture
Alice beyond Wonderland explores the ubiquitous power of Lewis Carroll's
imagined world. Including work by some of the most prominent contemporary
scholars in the field of Lewis Carroll studies, all introduced by Karoline
Leach's edgy foreword, Alice beyond Wonderland considers the literary,
imaginative, and cultural influences of Carroll's 19th-century story on the
high-tech, postindustrial cultural space of the twenty-first century.
The scholars in this volume attempt to move beyond the sexually charged
permutations of the "Carroll myth," the image of an introverted man fumbling
into literary immortality through his love for a prepubescent Alice.
Contributions include an essay comparing Dantean and Carrollian underworlds, one
investigating child characters as double agents in untamed lands, one placing
Wonderland within the geometrical and algebraic "fourth dimension," one
investigating the visual and verbal interplay of hand imagery, and one exploring
the influence of Japanese translations of Alice on the Gothic-Lolita subculture
of neo-Victorian enthusiasts. This is a bold, capacious, and challenging work.
away from biographical ones, and within this sphere to have a laudably wide range of focus.
I haven't myself found the time to read anything but Karoline's foreword so far; I'll be very interested to hear the views of anyone who has, or who does in the near future.
Here's what other people have said about it:
"Alice beyond Wonderland both defines the continuing strangeness of the Alice
books and offers a surprising and fresh reading of the ongoing `work' of
Carroll's writing on Wonderland in the twenty-first century. This fresh
consideration, determined not to repeat the critical tropes of the past,
indicates the ways Alice has crossed cultures and literary, political, and
technological spaces. Hollingsworth deserves our praise for being so bold a
thinker in conceiving this project."—Barry Qualls, author, The Secular Pilgrims
of Victorian Fiction: The Novel as Book of Life
"Alice beyond Wonderland offers an exciting range of new perspectives on the
Alice books, linked around the core theme of space. This impressive collection
will make an excellent and original contribution to the literature on Alice and
Carroll."—Will Brooker, author, Alice's Adventure: Lewis Carroll in Popular
Culture
Alice beyond Wonderland explores the ubiquitous power of Lewis Carroll's
imagined world. Including work by some of the most prominent contemporary
scholars in the field of Lewis Carroll studies, all introduced by Karoline
Leach's edgy foreword, Alice beyond Wonderland considers the literary,
imaginative, and cultural influences of Carroll's 19th-century story on the
high-tech, postindustrial cultural space of the twenty-first century.
The scholars in this volume attempt to move beyond the sexually charged
permutations of the "Carroll myth," the image of an introverted man fumbling
into literary immortality through his love for a prepubescent Alice.
Contributions include an essay comparing Dantean and Carrollian underworlds, one
investigating child characters as double agents in untamed lands, one placing
Wonderland within the geometrical and algebraic "fourth dimension," one
investigating the visual and verbal interplay of hand imagery, and one exploring
the influence of Japanese translations of Alice on the Gothic-Lolita subculture
of neo-Victorian enthusiasts. This is a bold, capacious, and challenging work.