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

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
• Narration & Point of View
• Characterization
• Symbolism & Imagery

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