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Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass : a publishing history

Title
Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass : a publishing history / by Zoe Jaques, Anglia Ruskin University, UK, and Eugene Giddens, Anglia Ruskin University, UK.
Author
Jaques, Zoe.
Publication
Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2013]

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Additional Authors
Giddens, Eugene.
Description
xiii, 248 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.
Summary
"Emerging in several different versions during the author's lifetime, Lewis Carroll's Alice novels have a publishing history almost as magical and mysterious as the stories themselves. Zoe Jaques and Eugene Giddens offer a detailed and nuanced account of the initial publication of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and investigate how their subsequent transformations through print, illustration, film, song, music videos, and even stamp-cases and biscuit tins affected the reception of these childhood favourites. The authors consider issues related to the orality of the original tale and its impact on subsequent transmission, the differences between the manuscripts and printed editions, and the politics of writing and publishing for children in the 1860s. In addition, they take account of Carroll's own responses to the books' popularity, including his writing of major adaptations and a significant body of meta-textual commentary, and his reactions to the staging of Alice in Wonderland. Attentive to the child reader, how changing notions of childhood identity and needs affected shifting narratives of the story, and the representation of the child's body by various illustrators, the authors also make a significant contribution to childhood studies."--Publisher's Web site.
Series Statement
Ashgate Studies in Publishing History
Uniform Title
Ashgate studies in publishing history.
Subject
  • Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898
  • Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898 > Adaptations > History and criticism
  • Alice (Fictitious character from Carroll)
  • Children's stories > Publishing > History > Great Britain > 19th century
  • Publishers and publishing > Great Britain > History > 19th century
  • Fantasy fiction, English > Adaptations > History and criticism
  • Buchdruck
  • Edition
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-240) and index.
Contents
Introduction: Alice through the ages -- The origins of Alice -- Early adaptation -- Becoming a classic -- Textual afterlives -- Alice beyond the page.
Call Number
JFE 15-1759
ISBN
  • 9781409419037 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 1409419037 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 9781409419044 (ebk - PDF) (canceled/invalid)
  • 9781472403384 (ebk - ePUB) (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
2013012947
OCLC
841227496
Author
Jaques, Zoe.
Title
Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass : a publishing history / by Zoe Jaques, Anglia Ruskin University, UK, and Eugene Giddens, Anglia Ruskin University, UK.
Imprint
Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2013]
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Ashgate Studies in Publishing History
Ashgate studies in publishing history.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-240) and index.
Added Author
Giddens, Eugene.
Research Call Number
JFE 15-1759
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