The Alice Books and the Contested Ground of the Natural World

ISBN-13: 9780367886974 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 250 str.

Laura White

Opis

The Alice Books and the Contested Ground of the Natural World argues that Lewis Carroll used the book’s charm, wit and often puzzling conclusions to counter the emerging tendencies of the time that favored Darwinism and theories of evolution and challenged the then conventional thinking of the relationship between mankind and nature. Though a sc

Recenzje

"Illuminates an often-ignored aspect of Alice’s world." Jenny Woolf, author of "The Mystery of Lewis Carroll" and "Lewis Carroll in his Own Account."

Spis treści

CONTENTS

List of Figures

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

1. Interpreting Carroll’s Satires

2. Carroll and the Emerging Sciences

3. Carroll and Darwinian Satire

4. Animals and Anthropomorphism in the Alice Books

5. Eating

6. Natural History in the Alice Books

Coda

Bibliography

Index

O autorze

Laura White is the John E. Weaver Professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (USA).