Lewis Carroll's Alice Books: Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass

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Cultural Context

• Political & Social Context
• Victorianism
• Women's History
• Artistic Relations
• Victorian Technology

Literary Relations

• A Game of Words: the Ambiguities of Language in Great Expectations and Through the Looking Glass
• The Legal System in the Alice Books and Great Expectations
• Learning Language — Alice and Pip
• The Canon

Literary Techniques

• Themes
  • The Fantastic Nature of Prejudice
  • Malnutrition in Wonderland
  • Prejudice and Perception in Wonderland
  • Precarious Reality
  • Subjectivity and Reality
• Style
• Genre & Mode
  • Ground Rules of Fantasy
  • Defying Rules of Realism
• Setting
  • A Brief Discussion of Victorian Fantasy — Setting and Character
• Narration & Point of View
• Characterization
• Symbolism & Imagery

Related WWW Materials

• Mitsuharu Matsuoka's Hyper-Concordance allows word searches the complete texts of The Alice Books
• Lewis Carroll Home Page

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Last modified 5 January 2004