The Place of Lewis Carroll in Children's Literature [Paperback]

In this volume, Jan Susina examines the importance of Lewis Carroll and his popular Alice books to the field of childrens literature. From a study of Carrolls 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 childrens writers. In addition to examining Carrolls 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 publishing. The book addresses the important, but overlooked facet of Carrolls career as an astute entrepreneur who carefully developed an extensive Alice industry of books and non-book items based on the success of Wonderland, while rigorously defending his reputation as the originator of his distinctive style of childrens stories.

List of Figures Series Editors Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction 1: Respiciendo prudens : Lewis Carrolls Juvenilia 2: Lewis Carroll and the Literary Fairy Tale 3: The Play of Letters in Lewis Carrolls AliceBooks: Ravens and Writing-Desks 4: Multiple Wonderlands: Lewis Carroll and the Creation of the AliceIndustry 5: Imitations of Alice: Lewis Carroll and the Anxiety of Influence 6: Too Gaudy or Not Gaudy Enough: Lewis Carrolls The Nursery Alice 7: The Beggar-Maid: Alice Liddell as Street Arab 8: Coffee or Tea: The Two Nations of Victorian Childrens Literature 9: To Strike Out Yet Another New Path : Cross-Writing and Boundary-Crossing in Lewis Carrolls Sylvie and Bruno10: Alicein Consumerland: The Marketing of a Childrens Classic to Contemporary Readers 11: Cyber Alice: Wonderlandas Hypertext 12: Show Me, Dont (Re)Tell Me: Jon Scieszka Revises Wonderland Afterword Appendix Nlc!