Selected Bibliography

Essays & Criticism

An Exhibition from the Jon A. Lindseth Collection of C.L. Dodgson and Lewis Carroll. New York: The Grolier Club, 1998.

Auerbach, Nina. “Alice in Wonderland: A Curious Child.” Victorian Studies 17, no. 1 (1973): 31-47.

Beer, Gillian. Alice in Space: The Sideways Victorian World of Lewis Carroll. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2016.

—. Introduction to Jabberwocky and Other Nonsense: Collected Poems. (London & New York: Penguin, 2012), xi-xxxv.

Blake, Kathleen. Play, Games, and Sport: The Literary Works of Lewis Carroll. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 1974.

Bloom, Harold. Editor. Lewis Carroll. Modern Critical Views. New York: Chelsea House, 1987.

Brooker, Will. Alice’s Adventures: Lewis Carroll and Alice in Popular Culture. New York: Continuum, 2004.

Cohen, Morton N. “Hark the Snark,” in Lewis Carroll Observed, 92-110.

—. “Lewis Carroll and the Education of Victorian Women.” In Nineteenth-Century Women Writers of the English-Speaking World, edited Rhoda B. Nathan, 27-35. New York: Greenwood Press, 1986.

Davis, Richard Brian, ed. Alice in Wonderland and Philosophy: Curiouser and Curiouser. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2010.

Demurova, Nina. “Toward a Definition of Alice’s Genre: The Folktale and Fairy-Tale Connections.” In Guiliano, Lewis Carroll: A Celebration, 75-88.

Goodacre, Selwyn. “The 1865 Alice: A New Appraisal and a Revised Census.” In Guiliano and Kincaid, Soaring with the Dodo: Essays on Lewis Carroll’s Life and Art, 77-96.

Gordon, Jan. “The Alice Books and the Metaphors of Victorian Childhood.” In Phillips, Aspects of Alice, 93-113.

Greenacre, Phyllis. Swift and Carroll: A Psychoanalytic Study of Two Lives. New York: International Universities Press, 1955.

Guiliano, Edward. “A Time for Humor: Lewis Carroll, Laughter and Despair, and The Hunting of the Snark,” In Guiliano, Lewis Carroll: A Celebration, 123-31.

—. Introduction to The Complete Illustrated Works of Lewis Carroll. Illustrated by John Tenniel. Edited by Edward Guiliano. New York: Avenel Books, 1982.

—. “Lewis Carroll as Artist: Fifteen Unpublished Sketches for the Sylvie and Bruno Books,” in Guiliano, Lewis Carroll Observed, 145-160.

—.  Lewis Carroll: The Worlds of His Alices. Brighton: EER Edward Everett Root Publishers, 2019.

Guiliano, Edward, ed. Lewis Carroll: A Celebration: Essays on the Occasion of the 150th Anniversary of the Birth of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. New York: C. N. Potter, 1982.

—. Lewis Carroll Observed: A Collection of Unpublished Photographs, Drawing, Poetry, and New Essays. New York: C. N. Potter, 1976.

Guiliano, Edward and James R. Kincaid, eds. Soaring with the Dodo: Essays on Lewis Carroll’s Life and Art. New York: Lewis Carroll Society of North America, 1982.

Hancher, Michael. The Tenniel Illustrations to the “Alice” Books. Columbus: Ohio State UP, 1985.

Henkle, Roger B. Comedy and Culture: England 1820-1900. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1980.

—. “Spitting Blood and Writing Comic: Mid-Century British Humor” Mosaic 4 (1976), 77-90.

Hollingsworth, Cristopher, ed. Alice Beyond Wonderland: Essays for the Twenty-First Century. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2009.

Holquist, Michael. “What is a Boojum? Nonsense and Modernism.” Yale French Studies 43 (1969): 145-64.

Jaques, Zoe and Eugene Giddens. Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass: A Publishing History. New York and London: Routledge, 2013.

Kelly, Richard Michael. “‘If you don’t know what a Gryphon is’: Text and Illustration in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.” In Guiliano, Lewis Carroll: A Celebration, 62-74.

Kincaid, James R. Child-Loving: The Erotic Child and Victorian Culture. New York and London: Routledge, 1992.

Lebailly, Hugues. “C. L. Dodgson and the Victorian Cult of the Child.” Carrollian 4 (1999): 3-31.

—. “Charles Lutwidge Dodgson’s Infatuation with the Weaker and More Aesthetic Sex Reexamined.” Dickens Studies Annual 32 (2003): 339-62.

Lindseth, Jon A. and Stephanie Lovett. “The Most Translated English Novel.” In Alice in a World of Wonderlands, 752-54.

Lovett, Charles C. Alice on Stage: A History of the Early Theatrical Productions of Alice in Wonderland, Together with a Checklist of Dramatic Adaptations of Charles Dodgson’s Works. Westport, CT: Meckler, 1990.

Phillips, Robert S., ed. Aspects of Alice: Lewis Carroll’s Dreamchild as Seen Through the Critics’ Looking-Glasses, 1865-1971. New York: Vanguard, 1971. 

Rackin, Donald. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass: Nonsense, Sense, and Meaning. New York: Twayne, 1991.

—. “Corrective Laughter: Carroll’s Alice and Popular Children’s Literature of the Nineteenth Century.” The Journal of Popular Culture (1967): 243-55.

Reichertz, Ronald. The Making of the Alice Books: Lewis Carroll’s Use of Earlier Children’s Literature. Buffalo: McGill-Queen’s UP, 1997.

Robson, Catherine. Men in Wonderland: The Lost Girlhood of the Victorian Gentleman. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2001.

Sewell, Elizabeth. The Field of Nonsense. London: Chatto and Windus, 1952.

Sigler, Carolyn, ed. Alternative Alices: Visions and Revisions of Lewis Carroll’s Alice Books. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1997.

Susina, Jan. The Place of Lewis Carroll in Children’s Literature. New York: Routledge, 2010.

Sutherland, Robert D. Language and Lewis Carroll. The Hague: Mouton, 1970.

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