6/1/2023 0 Comments Lewis carroll books![]() These historical details indicate a dark figure lurking just behind the books’ fantastical window dressing. Speculation on Lewis Carroll’s sexual violence toward children are one strike against him another is the hippies who adopted his books as a metaphor for psychedelic drug use. Wonderland has held our attention for 150 years, but something about it gives us pause. ![]() It is Lewis Carroll himself, along with his dubious intentions as an author and as a human being, who is under scrutiny in literary and historical circles. Carroll’s cultural staying power is not up for debate (regardless of his relatively obscure entries, like 1889’s Sylvie and Bruno). His primary contribution to the canon of English literature, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Alice Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There (1872), have earned a great deal of affection from the better part of ten generations of readers, many of whom maintain their love of Alice and Lewis Carroll over the course of their entire lives. ![]() ![]() The Lewis Carroll Problem One of Carroll’s many self portraitsĬharles Dodgson- better known as Lewis Carroll- is generally regarded as the father of modern children’s literature. ![]()
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