QUESTION:According to Humphrey Carpenter, Carrolls ‘Alice’ books consist, on their deepest level, of an exploration of violence, death and Nothingness. Do they? Question refers to the following books by Carroll:Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865); Through the Looking Glass (1871) Texts here: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Alice%27s_Adventures_in_Wonderland_(1866) https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Through_the_Looking-Glass,_and_What_Alice_Found_There TEXTS TO USE AS SECONDARY READINGS: The Lewis Carroll Society maintains a useful set of links to research and publications: http://lewiscarrollsociety.org.uk/pages/aboutcharlesdodgson/randr.html Jerome Bump, Soaring with the Dodo: Essays on Lewis Carroll’s Life and Art by Edward Guiliano et al [reviewed], Victorian Studies 28 (1985), 316-317 William Empson, Alice in Wonderland: the Child as Swain, in Some Versions of Pastoral (1935). Sarah Gilead, Magic Abjured: Closure in Children’s Fantasy Fiction, PMLA106:2 (1991), 277-293 U. C. Knoepflmacher, Avenging Alice: Christina Rossetti and Lewis Carroll Nineteenth-Century Literature 41 (1986), 299-328 Robert Phillips (ed) Aspects of Alice: Lewis Carrolls Dreamchild seen through the Critics Looking Glasses 1865-1971 (Harmondsworth; Penguin 1981). Rose Lovell Smith, The Animals of Wonderland: Tenniel as Carrolls Reader, Criticism 45 (2003), 383-415 On children talking to themselves: Lev Vygotsky, Thought and Language Translated by Alex Kozulin (MIT Press, Cambridge MA,1986 [1962])Katherine Nelson, Narratives from the Crib (Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA, 1989) On Alice and modernism: Juliet Dusinberre, Alice to the Lighthouse: Childrens Books and Radical Experiments in Art (Macmillan, Basingstoke, 1999 [1987]) Holly Virgnia Blackford, Apertures into the House of Fiction: Novel Methods and Child Study, 1870-1910 Childrens Literature Association Quarterly 32/4 (2007) 368-89 (Special Issue on Childrens Lit and Modernism) Kimberly Reynolds, Radical Childrens Literature: Future Visions and Aesthetic Transformations in Juvenile Fiction (Palgrave, New York, 2007) PLEASE USE THE ABOVE READINGS AS SECONDARY SOURCES TO SUPPORT POINTS RAISED WITHIN THE ESSAY IF RELEVANT TO THE QUESTION. PLEASE CONDUCT OWN RESEARCH TO INCLUDE IN ESSAY AS SECONDARY SOURCES.I am able to give my university log in so the writer may access all materials related to the essay question. They will also be able to access sources and secondary readings that must be used within the essay.
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