The current issue of Smithsonian magazine includes Jenny Woolf’s succinct summary of current critical and popular thought around Mr. Dodgson, focusing on how perceptions are at last changing to a less sensationalized and more fact-based, historically appropriate view: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/Lewis-Carrolls-Shifting-Reputation.html
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The one thing that puzzles me about this excellent article is why it doesn’t answer its own question! As someone else has commented, why *has* Carroll’s reputation shifted in recent times? What has changed?