The Alice behind Wonderland
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Published
New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Physical Desc
110 pages : ill. ; 22 cm.
Status
Moab Library - Adult Non-fiction Book
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LC Subjects
Alice (Fictitious character : Carroll)
Carroll, Lewis, -- 1832-1898. -- Alice's adventures in Wonderland
Carroll, Lewis, -- 1832-1898. -- Photograph collections.
Children's stories, English -- History and criticism.
Fantasy fiction, English -- History and criticism.
Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century
Hargreaves, Alice Pleasance Liddell, -- 1852-1934.
Carroll, Lewis, -- 1832-1898. -- Alice's adventures in Wonderland
Carroll, Lewis, -- 1832-1898. -- Photograph collections.
Children's stories, English -- History and criticism.
Fantasy fiction, English -- History and criticism.
Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century
Hargreaves, Alice Pleasance Liddell, -- 1852-1934.
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Published
New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Format
Book
Language
English
Notes
General Note
Includes index.
Description
On a summer's day in 1858, in a garden behind Christ Church College in Oxford, Charles Dodgson, a lecturer in mathematics, photographed six-year-old Alice Liddell, the daughter of the college dean, with a Thomas Ottewill Registered Double Folding camera, recently purchased in London. Simon Winchester deftly uses the resulting image--as unsettling as it is famous, and the subject of bottomless speculation--as the vehicle for a brief excursion behind the lens, a focal point on the origins of a classic work of English literature. Dodgson's love of photography framed his view of the world, and was partly responsible for transforming a shy and half-deaf mathematician into one of the world's best-loved observers of childhood. Little wonder that there is more to "Alice Liddell as the Beggar Maid" than meets the eye. Using Dodgson's published writings, private diaries, and of course his photographic portraits, Winchester gently exposes the development of Lewis Carroll and the making of his Alice.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Winchester, S. (2011). The Alice behind Wonderland . Oxford University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Winchester, Simon. 2011. The Alice Behind Wonderland. Oxford University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Winchester, Simon. The Alice Behind Wonderland Oxford University Press, 2011.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Winchester, Simon. The Alice Behind Wonderland Oxford University Press, 2011.
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