Submission and Agency, or the Role of the Reader in the First Editions of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass (1871)
This article analyzes the role of the reader of the first editions of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. Exploring the layout of the original editions shows that, though they sometimes require the reader’s submission to their ploys, they also not infreque...
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| description | This article analyzes the role of the reader of the first editions of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. Exploring the layout of the original editions shows that, though they sometimes require the reader’s submission to their ploys, they also not infrequently empower her. The reader of the original Alice books is caught up, then, between two contradictory positions: submission and agency. This tension could be explained by the nineteenth-century shift from the early didacticism of children’s books to the modern genre of children’s literature. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-897cc3f4c0d64e2790463374fff288072025-01-30T10:21:47ZengPresses Universitaires de la MéditerranéeCahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens0220-56102271-61492016-11-018410.4000/cve.2962Submission and Agency, or the Role of the Reader in the First Editions of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass (1871)Virginie IchéThis article analyzes the role of the reader of the first editions of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. Exploring the layout of the original editions shows that, though they sometimes require the reader’s submission to their ploys, they also not infrequently empower her. The reader of the original Alice books is caught up, then, between two contradictory positions: submission and agency. This tension could be explained by the nineteenth-century shift from the early didacticism of children’s books to the modern genre of children’s literature.https://journals.openedition.org/cve/2962Carroll (Lewis)Alice booksreader-response criticismfirst editionssubmissionagency |
| spellingShingle | Virginie Iché Submission and Agency, or the Role of the Reader in the First Editions of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass (1871) Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens Carroll (Lewis) Alice books reader-response criticism first editions submission agency |
| title | Submission and Agency, or the Role of the Reader in the First Editions of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass (1871) |
| title_full | Submission and Agency, or the Role of the Reader in the First Editions of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass (1871) |
| title_fullStr | Submission and Agency, or the Role of the Reader in the First Editions of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass (1871) |
| title_full_unstemmed | Submission and Agency, or the Role of the Reader in the First Editions of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass (1871) |
| title_short | Submission and Agency, or the Role of the Reader in the First Editions of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass (1871) |
| title_sort | submission and agency or the role of the reader in the first editions of lewis carroll s alice s adventures in wonderland 1865 and through the looking glass 1871 |
| topic | Carroll (Lewis) Alice books reader-response criticism first editions submission agency |
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