Through the Looking-Glass (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Lewis Carroll
- First Published: 1871
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Fantasy
- Time of Work: Nineteenth century
- Genres: Long fiction, Bildungsroman, Fantasy
- Subjects: Girls, Maturation or coming of age, Children, Traveling or travelers, Nineteenth century, Education or educators, Other worlds, Dreams, Cats, Reality, Kings, queens, or royalty, Fantasy, Imagination, Comedy, Pretensions, Animals, Games, Chess or chess players, Mirrors or lenses
- Locales: Dreamscape, Godstow, England, Wonderland (mythic)
Places Discussed
Alice’s house. The story starts and ends in the overstuffed Victorian parlor of Alice’s English home. As in Wonderland, a safe, comfortable world surrounds the sometimes threatening dream world.
Looking-Glass Land. World that Alice enters by stepping through the mirror in her home. Because the land is on the other side of the mirror, many things go by opposites. Books are printed in mirror-writing, walking directly toward an object results in leading one away from it, one must run as quickly as possible merely to stay in one place. Time can...
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