Lewis Carroll Academic Information
TABLE OF CONTENTSBiographies
To get a full proper biography, you'll have to read a book. It won't kill you, I promise.- Looking for Lewis Carroll, a site where you will find information and various views on Carroll.
- The full biography by Derek Hudson
- Search for a biography. Use this link to find a short bio of Carroll and an even shorter one of Tenniel.
- Another very brief bio of Carroll and a few links.
- A bio of Carroll and a couple of opinions to boot by Keith Parkins.
- Engines of our Ingenuity - some words on Carroll from a series at the University of Houston.
- Definition of Lewis Carroll - that's an odd notion. This bio appears on many sites, but I don't know who wrote it.
- A thumbnail sketch at WHO2
- Victorian Station bio
- A bit of family background
- Edward Bok meeting Dodgson
- Alice Liddell bio
- A bio on a scifi page in Finland
- A timeline on Britain Unlimited
- Encyclopedia: Lewis Carroll
- Carroll's maternal genealogy by William Skyvington
- Critical reception of Carroll's works
- A bio and some photos of Richmond School
- A blurb by Salem Press
- Carroll's financial records viewed as a mirror to the man by Jenny Woolf.
- Epilepsy and Lewis Carroll by Sadi Ranson-Polizzotti
- 1907 entry in the Nutall Encyclopedia
- Lewis Carroll at Winteringham
Bibliography
- A list of reference books You can't find all information on the web. Every once in a while you have to read a book.
- Bibliography of Carroll's works
- Newer publications
- Languages into which Alice was translated
- A Bibliography course at University of British Columbia
- A partial list of works with links and a bio
Critical Analysis and Interpretation
- To Stop a Bandersnatch by Mark Burstein. One man's lifelong search for the meaning of Alice. Now you see it, zen again maybe you don't. It is a saga that may differ in specifics, but in general resonates with many of our own experiences.
- Looking for Lewis Carroll Looking for Lewis Carroll A site that claims to uncover the myths about Lewis Carroll. These articles are well worth reading then make up your own mind.
- Talks by Hans van Ditmarsch
- The Lewis Carroll section of the Victorian Web.
Professor George Landow shows what the WWW was meant to be. Mark this page with a white stone. I wish there were more sites like this one.
- Reflections on the Grotesque an article by Joyce Carol Oates which contains a few words on Carroll's Alice.
- Joyce Carol Oates' personal best - how reading Alice affected her.
- Chapter by chapter commentary by Marc Edmund Jones of the Sabian Assembly written in 1928 .
- Karoline Leach's article from the
London Sunday Times. It contains a bit of a note from
the Dodgson family archives which is worth reading. I suggest you read the note first and
make up your own mind as to what it might mean.
- Comparison of Carroll to James Fenimore Cooper
- A talk given by J. R. Lucas at St. Mary's, Guildford on May 17, 1998.
- Great Science Fiction and Fantasy works of Carroll.
- Relation between nonsense and linguistics
- Notes on Through the Looking Glass
- Commentary on Looking Glass from North East Wales Institute of Higher Education
- Alice in Pragmaticland linguistics
- The story of Alice
- Framing Effects as used in Alice in Wonderland
- The Poems in Alice parodies with original poems - by Florence Milner 1903
- David Carroll's Carroll page
- Futility in Wonderland Alice vs Victorian expectations - by David Raynor
- Issues with translating into Dutch by Marye de Jong
- Nabokov translation
- Paper on translating from English to Finnish by Alice Martin, translator of Alice
- Translating childrens' books into German
- Proper Names in Translations for Children Alice in Wonderland as a Case in Point
- A discussion on whether to use the name Alice or Arisu in Japanese translations
- Alice in Mirrorland Alice as literary icon
- Some influences on The Hunting of the Snark
- An explication of Jabberwocky
- Lewis Carroll and the Search for Non-Being
- Carroll's use of diluted violence
- Bosch, Alice and Mad Magazine by Marshall McLuhan.
- Professor Waller Hastings view of Carroll and his works
- Comparison of Alice to Cupid and Psyche
- "The Great Fall" of Authority
- Animals of wonderland
- Alice and the Knockdown Argument by Errol Kaighin
- Mathematical Structure in Wonderland by Gregory George
- Poetry in the Alice books
- Popular Culture's place in education
- Through the Looking-Glass
- Deleuze with Carroll a look at the philosophy of nonsense
- Lewis Carroll's Brainchild
- Lewis Carroll : A Man Out Of Joint The Anonymous Architect of Euclid's Retreat
- Lewis Carroll:Author Mathematician and Christian
by David Neuhouser, Taylor University
- Alice as a trip through puberty an essay
- Backdrop of the Victorian World for Alice
- Short analysis of the Alice books
- Hunting of the Snark is almost certainly a poem about the Lunacy Commission or so the doctor says.
- Carroll - Beckett Beckett - Carroll
- A 1954 review of the Diaries edited by R.L. Green
- Linguistics David Crystal 1998
- Girls Under-Ground comparing Alice in WOnderland, The Wizard of Oz, and Labyrinth
- Some thoughts on Sylvie and Bruno
- Thesis proposal Math and Creative Writing
- Alice in Wonderland review
Lessons
- Probability 1 at Northeastern University
- An interactive math teaching site This is a live instance of the above.
- Carroll and math at San Diego State U
- Adventures in Language and Logic at Denver University.
- Through the Looking-Glass: Musings of Lewis Carroll a course at Coe College Iowa
- Looking Glass
- Chapter outlines
- The Victorian Fancy
- U of Strathclyde
- Course at Strathclyde
- L in Wonderland
- Review of Alice in Wonderland as SciFi
Helpful Tools
- Concordance of the Alice books searchable
- Another concordance in Hong Kong
- Searchable Alice
Tidbits
- An article about Jabberwhorl Cronstadt from Henry Miller's Black Spring.
- Carroll's poetry parodies and their originals
- See another photo of the source of the Cheshire cat discovered by yours truly
Other Carroll Resources
an alternative view of Lewis Carroll
from a movie database sight.