Lewis Carroll Observed: A Collection of Unpublished Photographs, Drawings, Poetry, and New Essays

These fifteen essays by critics, philosophers, and assorted Carrollians are interspersed with rare drawings from Carroll’s manuscripts and letters, photographs, and movie stills from adaptations of the Alice books. Contains: “Laughing and Grief: What’s So Funny about Alice in Wonderland?” by Donald Rackin; “Speak Roughly” by Martin Gardner; “Arthur Rackham’s Adventures in Wonderland” by Michael Patrick Hearn; “Lewis Carroll as Photographer: A Series of Photographs of Young Girls” by Edward Guiliano; “The Nonsense System in Lewis Carroll’s Work and in Today’s World” by Elizabeth Sewell; “High art and Low Amusements” by Roger B. Henkle; “Assessing Lewis Carroll” by Jean Gattegno; “Carroll’s ‘The Ligniad’: An Early Mock Epic in Facsimile” by Roger Lancelyn Green; “Hark the Snark” by Morton N. Cohen; “Whale or Boojum: An Agony” by Harold Beaver; “The Sylvie and Bruno books as Victorian Novel” by Edmund Miller; “Lewis Carroll as Artist: Fifteen Unpublished Sketches for the Sylvie and Bruno books” by Edward Guiliano; “Lewis Carroll the Pre-Raphaelite: ‘Fainting in Coils’’’ by Jeffrey Stern; “The Game of Logic: A Game of Universes” by Ernest Coumet; “The Film Collector’s Alice” by David H. Schaefer; and “A Note on Carroll Bibliography.”