ENGL 2810Y Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Curiouser, Roger Sale, Didacticism
4 Oct 2018
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Alice"s adventures in wonderland and the birth of fantasy. The golden age of children"s literature: 1865-1910, cult of the child , purity, innocence of children idealize rather than discipline, play, imagination, adventure. The birth of science fiction: term first used in 1851, mary shelley"s frankenstein (1818, 1890s novels of h. g. Wells, including the time machine (1895) and the war of the. Worlds (1898: jules verne, including journey to the center of the earth (1864) and 20,000 leagues. Alice in wonderland is both symptom and catalyst to a new sceptical generation, not because carroll mocks god, but because his book refuses to convey a religious message [ ]. (juliet disinterred. Alice to the lighthouse, qtd. in jack zipes, only connect, 374. ) Alice in wonderland (disney, 1951: through the looking glass (1871, on carrol/book version, donald rackin says the book embodies a comic horror-vision of the chaotic land beneath the man-made [sic] groundwork of western thought and convention ( alice"s.
