Place of Lewis Carroll in Children's Literature

<p>In this volume, Jan Susina examines the importance of Lewis Carroll and his popular Alice books to the field of children’s literature. From a study of Carroll’s 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 children’s writers. In addition to examining Carroll’s 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 Carroll’s 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 children’s stories.</p> <p>List of Figures Series Editor’s Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction 1: "Respiciendo prudens": Lewis Carroll’s Juvenilia 2: Lewis Carroll and the Literary Fairy Tale 3: The Play of Letters in Lewis Carroll’s <em>Alice</em> Books: Ravens and Writing-Desks 4: Multiple <em>Wonderlands</em>: Lewis Carroll and the Creation of the <em>Alice</em> Industry 5: Imitations of <em>Alice</em>: Lewis Carroll and the Anxiety of Influence 6: Too Gaudy or Not Gaudy Enough: Lewis Carroll’s <em>The Nursery "Alice"</em> 7: <em>The Beggar-Maid</em>: Alice Liddell as Street Arab 8: Coffee or Tea: The Two Nations of Victorian Children’s Literature 9: "To Strike Out Yet Another New Path": Cross-Writing and Boundary-Crossing in Lewis Carroll’s <em>Sylvie and Bruno</em> 10: <em>Alice</em> in Consumerland: The Marketing of a Children’s Classic to Contemporary Readers 11: Cyber Alice: <em>Wonderland</em> as Hypertext 12: Show Me, Don’t (Re)Tell Me: Jon Scieszka Revises <em>Wonderland </em>Afterword Appendix Notes Bibliography Index</p>