ENGL 2810Y Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: John Tenniel, Euclidean Geometry, The Isis
23 Feb 2016
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Alice"s adventures in wonderland and the birth of fantasy. Looking at the child as pure and innocent. Wells, including the time machine (1895) and the war of the worlds (1898) Embodied a comic horror-vision of the chaotic land beneath the man-made ground work of western thought and convention. Children"s literature, deacon, photographer, complex euclidean geometry, Meets 1856 (alice age 7); visits often over the next half-decade, often playing croquet or telling stories. On boat trip with the three sisters and family friend (adult) up river isis, in 1862, that first improvises alice in wonderland story. After this, because kids beg him to do so, he writes and edits it, calling his 1863 draft alice"s adventures under ground. Did the illusions for alice"s adventures in wonderland. John tenniel, a well known political cartoonist, agrees to the illustrations. Sequel, alice through the looking-glass published in 1871 and a young-readers version, nursery alice in 1890. That lewis carroll was a horrible pedophile.
