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Alice to the Lighthouse: Children’s Books and Radical Experiments in Art

By Juliet Dusinberre (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year
1999
ISBN
978-0-333-65850-5, 978-1-349-27357-7
DOI
10.1007/978-1-349-27357-7
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
40 MB (42043014 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
XXI, 352\374
Time added
2017-06-25 01:07:36
Nineteenth-Century Literature;Twentieth-Century Li

Description

Alice to the Lighthouse is the first and only full-length study of the relation between children's literature and writing for adults. Lewis Carroll's Alice books created a revolution in writing for and about children which had repercussions not only for subsequent children's writers - such as Stevenson, Kipling, Nesbit, Frances Hodgson Burnett and Mark Twain - but for Virginia Woolf and her generation. Virginia Woolf's celebration of writing as play rather than preaching is the twin of the Post-Impressionist art championed by Roger Fry. Dusinberre connects books for children in the late nineteenth century with developments in education and psychology, all of which feed into the modernism of the early twentieth century.

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