LEADER 03891nam 2200481 450 001 9910136126803321 005 20210106113355.0 010 $a0-226-40479-X 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226404790 035 $a(CKB)3710000000914958 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4721525 035 $a(DE-B1597)550185 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226404790 035 $a(OCoLC)1229162049 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000914958 100 $a20160727h20162016 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aAlice in space $ethe sideways Victorian world of Lewis Carroll /$fGillian Beer 210 1$aChicago, IL :$cUniversity of Chicago Press,$d[2016] 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource (307 pages) $cillustrations 225 0 $aCarpenter lectures 311 $a0-226-04150-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction -- $t1.Alice in time -- $t2. ?the faculty of invention?: games, play, and maths -- $t3. Puns, punch, and parody -- $t4. the dialogues of Alice: pretending to be two people -- $t5. Are you animal ? vegetable ? or mineral?: Alice?s identity -- $t6. ?must a name mean something? Alice asked doubtfully -- $t7. Dreaming and justice -- $t8. Growing and eating -- $tEpilogue -- $tNotes -- $tSelected bibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aIn Alice?s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, Lewis Carroll created fantastic worlds that continue to delight and trouble readers of all ages today. Few consider, however, that Carroll conceived his Alice books during the 1860s, a moment of intense intellectual upheaval, as new scientific, linguistic, educational, and mathematical ideas flourished around him and far beyond. Alice in Space reveals the contexts within which the Alice books first lived, bringing back the zest to jokes lost over time and poignancy to hidden references. Gillian Beer explores Carroll?s work through the speculative gaze of Alice, for whom no authority is unquestioned and everything can speak. Parody and Punch, evolutionary debates, philosophical dialogues, educational works for children, math and logic, manners and rituals, dream theory and childhood studies?all fueled the fireworks. While much has been written about Carroll?s biography and his influence on children?s literature, Beer convincingly shows him at play in the spaces of Victorian cultural and intellectual life, drawing on then-current controversies, reading prodigiously across many fields, and writing on multiple levels to please both children and adults in different ways. With a welcome combination of learning and lightness, Beer reminds us that Carroll?s books are essentially about curiosity, its risks and pleasures. Along the way, Alice in Space shares Alice?s exceptional ability to spark curiosity in us, too. 606 $aFantasy fiction, English$xCriticism and interpretation 610 $avictorian literature, fantasy, satire, intellectual history, childrens, science, mathematics, parody, punch, evolution, authority, social change, revolution, literary criticism, manners, etiquette, morality, childhood, curiosity, knowledge, invention, games, play, puns, humor, identity, doubt, names, justice, power, control, growing, expansion, doubling, 1860s, spaces, place, subversive, absurd, linguistics, imagination, darwin, huxley, max muller, bronte, john stuart mill. 615 0$aFantasy fiction, English$xCriticism and interpretation. 676 $a823.8 686 $aHL 2395$qSEPA$2rvk 700 $aBeer$b Gillian$0131285 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910136126803321 996 $aAlice in space$92027029 997 $aUNINA