A selective bibliography of 35 active links for the British Victorian poet and children's writer Lewis Carroll, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the Modern Language Association Guidelines for Authors of Web Pages
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Ben-Zvi, Pinhas. "Lewis Carroll and the Search for Non-Being." Carroll was fascinated by the question of whether non-being, like being, exists, the author of this paper contends. The Philosopher, Volume LXXXX No. 1
Burstein, Mark. "To Stop a Bandersnatch." Burstein discusses the many interpretations of the Alice books. Lewis Carroll Society of N. America
Cohen, Morton N. Publisher's blurb for Lewis Carroll and His Illustrators (Cornell Univ. Press, 2003)
Green, Laura. "Alice in Mirrorland: Every age finds its own obsessions reflected in Lewis Carroll's fearless little girl." An engaging essay by Professor Green in Salon Magazine, July 1997
Hidalgo, Laura. "Alice In Pragmaticland: Reference, Deixis And The Delimitation Of Text Worlds In Lewis Carroll's Alice Books," Patterns in Discourse and Text (1998)
Hudson, Derek. A biography of Lewis Carroll, which begins, "The story of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) is one of the most curious in Victorian literature. It is paralleled in certain respects by that of his younger contemporary Gerard Manley Hopkins. The poems of Hopkins and the fantasies of Carroll were written in the heart of the Victorian era by bachelor clergy-men who led academic, ascetic, restricted, intensely religious lives. Both were fascinated by the study of words."
Jenkins, Emily Lockhart. "The reading public and the illustrated novel, 1890-1914." [George Du Maurier, Lewis Carroll, Elizabeth Gaskell, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]. PhD dissertation, Columbia, 1998
Kaighin , Errol D. "Alice and the Knockdown Argument." Quadrant Magazine, Volume XLVII Number 2 (January-February 2003)
Leach, Karoline. A review of In the Shadow of the Dreamchild: A New Understanding of Lewis Carroll (Peter Owen/Dufour). The reviewer notes "Leach's heretical thesis, which scandalizes and enrages orthodox Carrollians, is that C.L. Dodgson was primarily interested not in little girls but in sexually mature women." Reviewed by August A. Imholtz, Jr. in Virginia Quarterly Review, Summer 2000; another review, "The Close Reader" from the NYTimes, 4/7/02
Lopez, Alan. "Deleuze with Carroll" on the philosophy of Lewis Carroll's nonsense. Angelaki, Vol. 9, 3 (Dec. 2004)
Lovell-Smith, Rose. "The Animals of Wonderland: Tenniel as Carroll's Reader." Criticism, Fall, 2003
Lucas, J.R. Lukas comments on Lewis Carroll briefly as a mathematician and logician. A talk given in St Mary's, Guildford, on May 17th, 1998
Milpas, Simon. "'I cried "Come, tell me how you live!/ And thumped him on the head': Wordsworth, Carroll and the 'Aged, Aged Man,'" Romanticism on the Net 5 (Feb. 1997)
McLuhan, Marshall. "Bosch, Alice in Wonderland, and MAD Magazine." Understanding Media (1964)
Oates, J.C. Noted novelist writes about how she was affected by the Alice stories
Rexer, Lyle. "Dodgson in wonderland: a traveling show, currently at New York's ICP, and two new books revive the question of intent behind the photographic work of Lewis Carroll." Art in America, June, 2003
Shetter, William Z. "Curiouser and Curiouser: The language world Alice blunders into." Language Miniatures, #18 (1999)
The Victorian Web has essays on Lewis Carroll's writing techniques, themes, biography, and the Victorian background
A biographical introduction to Lewis Carroll from the Books and Writers web site, Kuusankoski Public Library, Finland
"But there are no such things as words." Lexemes, morphemes, and "Jaberwocky." From Alphadictionary
Discussion questions on the Alice books, from the North East Wales Institute of Higher Education
On the cause of the break between Lewis Carroll and the family of Alice Liddell. London Times Literary Supplement, 1996
Some old criticism of Lewis Carroll's works, from The Cambridge History of English and American Literature in 18 Volumes (1907-21)
A brief introduction to Lewis Carroll from the Academy of American Poets
An online exhibit from the Univ. of Texas presents unusual artifacts from Carroll's childhood and his interest in logic, mathematics, and puzzles, along with his photographs
An extensive portfolio of Carroll's photographs in the Princeton Univ. Rare Book collection can be seen in thumbnails
The Lewis Carroll Birthplace Trust contains some information about Carroll's birthplace and a timeline
Approximately 15 photos taken by Carroll can be seen at this web site devoted to his photography
Web site for the UK Lewis Carroll Society
The Lewis Carroll web site from the Lewis Carroll Society of North America
Web site on Lewis Carroll from a class by A. Waller Hastings, Professor of English, Northern State University
Section on Lewis Carroll from a class on children's literature at Rutgers Univ., with discussion questions
"Contrariwise, the Association of New Lewis Carroll Studies," includes essays by Hugues Lebailly, Karoline Leach, and others
For a list of Lewis Carroll's texts available on the internet, use this link to the On-Line Books Page, a search engine from John Mark Ockerbloom that provides links to full texts on the internet
Lewis Carroll is the pseudonym of the English writer and mathematician Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, who is best known for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through The Looking Glass (1872), children's books that are also outstanding examples of satire and verbal wit
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