The Fabulous Journeys of Alice and Pinocchio - Exploring Their Parallel Worlds

Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass (1871) and Carlo Collodi's Le Avventure di Pinocchio (1883) are among the most influential classics of children's literature. Firmly rooted in their respective British and Italian national cultures, the Alice and Pinocchio stories connected to a worldwide audience almost like folktales and fairy tales and have become fixtures of postmodernism.
Although they come from radically different political and social backgrounds, the texts share surprising similarities. This comparative reading explores their imagery and history, and discusses them in the broader context of British and Italian children's stories.

List of contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

Part One. Theories, Choices and Contexts

1.¿Alice Meets Pinocchio: Parallel Readings, National Stereotypes and Cultural Associations

2.¿Books, Canons and Characters: Pinocchio in Wonderland and Alice in Tuscany

3.¿Carlo and Charles: Italy in the Age of Pinocchio, England in the Age of Alice

Part Two. Origins: Folktale, ­Fairy-Tale and Fantasy

deleteTraditions

4.¿Pinocchio as fiaba, Alice as ­Fairy-Tale: Folktale and ­Fairy-Tale Traditions

5.¿Fantasy and Form in Alice and Pinocchio

Part Three. New Journeys: Postmodernist

deleteExperiments with Alice and Pinocchio and Parallel Genre Readings in Empire Fictions

6.¿The Postmodernist Journeys of Alice and Pinocchio: Adventures in Transnational and Transtextual Identities

7.¿Childhood, School and Empire in Italy and the UK: Hughes and De Amicis, Henty and Salgari

Appendix: "Strange Meeting in ­Wonder-Tuscany" by Peter Hunt

Chapter Notes

Works Cited

Index

About the author

Laura Tosi is a professor of English literature at the University Ca' Foscari in Venice, Italy. Her research is in Elizabethan drama and children's literature. She has published works on literary fairy tales and adaptation, and co-edited the first history of English-language children's literature written in Italian.Peter Hunt is a professor emeritus of English and children's literature at Cardiff University, UK. He has lectured at more than 150 universities and colleges in 23 countries, and has produced 30 books and 500 papers and reviews on the subject.Donald E. Palumbo is a professor of English at East Carolina University. He lives in Greenville, North Carolina.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Hunt, Laura Tosi
• Assisted by: Donald E. Palumbo (Editor), Palumbo Donald E. (Editor)
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.10.2018
• EAN: 9781476665436
• ISBN: 978-1-4766-6543-6
• No. of pages: 237
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 12 mm
• Weight: 313 g
• Illustrations: Raster,schwarz-weiss
• Series: Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Italian, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Children's & teenage literature studies, Children’s and teenage literature studies: general