Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
- First Published: 1865
- Type of Work: Short fiction
- Type of Plot: Fantasy
- Time of Work: Victorian era
- Genres: Long fiction, Fantasy
- Subjects: Girls, Other worlds, Dreams, Mental illness, Cats, England or English people, Kings, queens, or royalty, Imagination, Card games, Size or shape, Animals, Victorian era or Victorianism, Lobsters, Rabbits, Doors, Mushrooms
- Locales: Dreamscape, Godstow, England, Wonderland (mythic)
Places Discussed
River bank. The story opens on the bank of a river. The location is not specified, but it is presumably near Oxford, England. In a prefatory poem, Lewis Carroll recalls a boat trip he made in that region in 1862 with Alice Liddell (his model for the fictional Alice), two of Alice’s sisters, and a friend. At the village of Godstow, about three miles up a branch of the River Thames called the Isis, he first imagined and told the story that became Alice in Wonderland. The book begins and ends on the river bank, whose quiet and order are bookends...
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