Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through ... - 9781138246799

Taylor & Francis

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 account of the initial publication of the Alice books, investigating how their subsequent transformations through print, illustration, film, and song affected the reception of these childhood favourites and examining what they reveal about the history of print culture and shifting attitudes of and towards the child reader. > 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 rece