Michael Dirda on Alice in Wonderland

In article <c54gn1$2m4au7$2@ID-90086.news.uni-berlin.de>,
Eric Walker <email.TakeThisOut@owlcroft.com> wrote:

 > Peter D. Tillman wrote:
 >
<font color=green>  > > <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43473-2004Apr1.html</font" target="_blank">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43473-2004Apr1.html</font</a>>
  > >
  > > "Lewis Carroll and Alice possess dual identities in the popular
  > > imagination. Carroll, or rather Charles L. Dodgson, is the eccentric,
  > > shy and stammering Oxford don with a kind heart, a flair for
  > > mathematical and linguistic puzzles and an old bachelor's prissy
  > > affection for children. That's the traditional view and, to my mind,
  > > still largely the true one. . . ."
 >
 > Even the traditional view is Swiss cheese. Look in at--
 >
<font color=purple> > <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.lookingforlewiscarroll.com/</font" target="_blank">http://www.lookingforlewiscarroll.com/</font</a>>
 >
 > --for some updates to that view.

Thanks, Eric. Interesting site [added to SF Site's link-list].

Cheers -- Pete Tillman
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Peter D. Tillman wrote in a message to All:

PDT> From: "Peter D. Tillman" <tillman.TakeThisOut@aztec.asu.edu>

PDT> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43473-2004Apr1.html

PDT> "Lewis Carroll and Alice possess dual identities in the popular
PDT> imagination. Carroll, or rather Charles L. Dodgson, is the
PDT> eccentric, shy and stammering Oxford don with a kind heart, a
PDT> flair for mathematical and linguistic puzzles and an old
PDT> bachelor's prissy affection for children. That's the traditional
PDT> view and, to my mind, still largely the true one. But some modern
PDT> readers and critics take Dodgson as little better than a
PDT> pedophile, a depraved Humbert Humbert who proposed marriage to
PDT> 11-year-old Alice Liddell (model and inspiration for the
PDT> fictional Alice) and snakily convinced mothers to allow him to
PDT> photograph their pubescent daughters in risque poses, or even in
PDT> the nude. Similarly, Alice has been portrayed as both a polite,
PDT> strong-minded but essentially innocent and well brought-up young
PDT> lady -- and as a proto-Goth, with a taste for drugs and danger,
PDT> half Lolita, half Lara Croft..."

PDT> Good stuff, and it sounds like a good book:

Alice was 7 when Lewis Carroll first got the idea for the book.

If it didn't get that right, how many other inaccuracies are there.


PDT> ALICE'S ADVENTURES
PDT> Lewis Carroll in Popular Culture
PDT> By Will Brooker. Continuum. 376 pp. $35

I see there's a new edition of "The annotated Alice" out.

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"Stephen Hayes" <Stephen.Hayesp0.f10.n7903.z8 DeleteThis @fmlynet.org> wrote in message news:<0056fce4 DeleteThis @fmlynet.org>...
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 > Peter D. Tillman wrote in a message to All:
 >
 > PDT> "Lewis Carroll and Alice possess dual identities in the popular
 > PDT> imagination. Carroll, or rather Charles L. Dodgson, is the
 > PDT> eccentric, shy and stammering Oxford don with a kind heart, a
 > PDT> flair for mathematical and linguistic puzzles and an old
 > PDT> bachelor's prissy affection for children. That's the traditional
 > PDT> view and, to my mind, still largely the true one. But some modern
 > PDT> readers and critics take Dodgson as little better than a
 > PDT> pedophile, a depraved Humbert Humbert who proposed marriage to
 > PDT> 11-year-old Alice Liddell (model and inspiration for the
 > PDT> fictional Alice) and snakily convinced mothers to allow him to
 > PDT> photograph their pubescent daughters in risque poses, or even in
 > PDT> the nude. Similarly, Alice has been portrayed as both a polite,
 > PDT> strong-minded but essentially innocent and well brought-up young
 > PDT> lady -- and as a proto-Goth, with a taste for drugs and danger,
 > PDT> half Lolita, half Lara Croft..."
 >
 > PDT> Good stuff, and it sounds like a good book:
 >
 > Alice was 7 when Lewis Carroll first got the idea for the book.
 >
 > If it didn't get that right, how many other inaccuracies are there.
 >
 >
 > PDT> ALICE'S ADVENTURES
 > PDT> Lewis Carroll in Popular Culture
 > PDT> By Will Brooker. Continuum. 376 pp. $35
 >
 > I see there's a new edition of "The annotated Alice" out.



Chill, Steve.

Alice could have inspired the book, then been proposed to by Carroll
four years later. No foul.


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