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OverviewRetracing the steps of a surprising array of 20th-century writers who ventured into the fantastical, topsy-turvy world of Lewis Carroll's fictions, this book demonstrates the full extent of Carroll's legacy in literary modernism. Testing the authority of language and mediation through extensive word-play and genre-bending, the Alice books undoubtedly prefigure literary modernism at its upmost experimental. The collection's chapters look beyond literary style to show how Carroll's writings had a far-reaching impact on modern life, from commercial culture to politics and philosophy. This book shows us the Alice we recognize from Carroll's novels but also the Alice modernist writers encountered through the looking-glass of these extraliterary discourses. Recovering a common touchstone between the likes of T. S. Eliot, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, W. H. Auden, and writers conventionally regarded on the periphery of modernist studies, such as Dorothy L. Sayers, Sylvia Plath, Jorge Luis Borges, Flann O'Brien, and Vladimir Nabokov, this volume ultimately provides a new entry-point into a more broadly conceptualised global modernism. Full Product DetailsAuthor: John D. Morgenstern , Dr Michelle Witen (University of Basel, Switzerland)Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic ISBN: 9781350248717ISBN 10: 1350248711 Pages: 272 Publication Date: 08 February 2024 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of Contents1. Introduction: Twentieth-Century Wonderlands: Michelle Witen, Europa-Universität Flensburg, Germany 2. ‘Speak in French when you can’t think of the English’: Carroll’s French and Mallarmé’s English: Alexandra Lukes, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland 3. T. S. Eliot's Adventures in Wonderland: John D. Morgenstern, Emory University, USA 4. Fantastic Surrealism: The Influence of Lewis Carroll's Wonderland on transition Magazine's American Surrealist Literary Experiments (1927–38): Céline Mansanti, University of Picardie Jules Verne, France 5. Alice and the Expansion of the American West: Modernism, the Northern Pacific Railroad's Wonderland Route, and Kate Chopin’s The Awakening: Michelle E. Moore, College of Dupage, USA 6. 'Open Alice's Door': Lewis Carroll’s Influence on Elizabeth Bishop and Sylvia Plath: Jessica R. McCort, Point Park University, USA 7. Becoming a Child: Lewis Carroll and Virginia Woolf's Poetics of Fluidity and Permanence: Teresa Prudente, University of Turin, Italy 8. Reeling and Writhing in Benjamin's Arcades: The Curious Case of the Girl who Wasn't There: Lisa Mullen, University of Cambridge, UK 9. 'These tautomeric changes': The Figures of Alice and Humpty Dumpty in the Work of W. H. Auden: Allan Pero, University of Western Ontario, Canada 10. Nightmares of History: Modernism and Colonialism in Lewis Carroll and Jorge Luis Borges: David Conlon, Maynooth University, Ireland 11. 'Sentence First Verdict Afterwards': Carroll, Nabokov and the Fragmented Body: Yaeli Greenblatt, Bar-Ilan University, Israel 12. 'You're nothing but a pack of cards!': Carrollian Intertextuality and the Detective Fiction of Dorothy L. Sayers: Ann Martin, University of Saskatchewan, Canada 13. ‘The Mime of Mick, Nick and the Maggies’; or '“Alice” on the Stage': James Williams, University of York, UK 14. Wasting Timelessness: Lewis Carroll, Flann O'Brien and Modernist Temporality: Paul Fagan, Maynooth University, IrelandReviewsWith verve and imagination, Witten and Morgenstern have brought together an eclectic and stimulating new set of essays on Carroll’s modernist afterlives. Who could resist a tea-party (or should that be a caucus race?) at which such “older children” – Joyce and Flann O’Brien, Woolf and Kate Chopin, Eliot and Dorothy L. Sayers, Walter Benjamin and Auden, Borges, Marquez, and Nabokov, Plath and Elizabeth Bishop - are gathered? When James Joyce called Jung and Freud Tweedledum and Tweedledee, he was proving Carroll’s immense capacity for explaining the modern world. The essays in this collection confirm this over and over again. They expel the idea that Modernism was a rejection of Victorian culture; that Carroll’s Alice books could be perceived as peripheral to the development of 20th Century Literature. And they affirm that modernist writers drew on Carroll because he revealed how threatening the regimes of reason, knowledge, and social ritual could be; and because he showed ways of contesting those regimes. There’s glory for you. * Finn Fordham, Professor of 20th Century Literature, Royal Holloway University of London, UK * Author InformationMichelle Witen is Junior Professor of English and Irish Literature at the Europa-Universität Flensburg, Germany and Director of the EUF Centre for Irish Studies. She is the author of James Joyce and Absolute Music (Bloomsbury 2018) and co-editor of the special issue of the James Joyce Quarterly on “Joyce and the Nonhuman” (2020/21). John D. Morgenstern is a scholar of 20th-century literature and the arts who has taught in England, Germany, and the United States. He now serves as an associate librarian at Emory University. John is the co-editor of The Edinburgh Companion to T. S. Eliot and the Arts (2016) and the founding editor of The T. S. Eliot Studies Annual. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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