Story of Alice - Lewis Carroll and the Secret History of Wonderland

Robert Douglas-Fairhurst illuminates two entangled lives: the Oxford mathematician Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) and Alice Liddell, the child for whom he invented the Alice stories. This relationship influenced Carroll¿s imaginative creation of Wonderland¿a sheltered world apart during the stormy transition from the Victorian to the modern era

About the author

Robert Douglas-Fairhurst is Professor of English Literature and a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford.

Summary

Robert Douglas-Fairhurst illuminates two entangled lives: the Oxford mathematician Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) and Alice Liddell, the child for whom he invented the Alice stories. This relationship influenced Carroll's imaginative creation of Wonderland-a sheltered world apart during the stormy transition from the Victorian to the modern era

Product details

• Authors: Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Robert (Professor of English Li Douglas-Fairhurst, Robert (Professor of English Literature Tutorial Fellow Magdalen College University of Oxford) Douglas-Fairhurst, Douglas-Fairhurst Robert
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2016
• EAN: 9780674970762
• ISBN: 978-0-674-97076-2
• No. of pages: 496
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology; Non-fiction book > Art, literature > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, Biography: literary, Ireland, Literature & literary studies, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Literature: history & criticism, Biography: writers, Literature: history and criticism