The place of Lewis Carroll in children's literature / / Jan Susina

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910778493103321
• Autore: Susina Jan.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York : , : Routledge, , 2010
• ISBN: 1-135-25439-7; 1-135-25440-0; 1-299-05428-5; 1-282-31550-1; 9786612315503; 0-203-86931-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (238 p.)
• Collana: Children's literature and culture ; ; v. 66
• Disciplina: 823/.8
• Soggetti: Children's stories, English - History and criticism; Children's stories - Authorship; Alice (Fictitious character : Carroll)
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; THE PLACE OF LEWIS CARROLL IN CHILDREN'S LITERATURE; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; 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 Arab8 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; 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
• Sommario/riassunto: In this volume, Jan Susina examines the importance of Lewis Carroll and his popular Alice books to the field of children's literature. From a study of Carroll'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 children's writers. In addition to examining Carroll'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 pub