Bibliography

Fordyce, Rachel. Lewis Carroll: A Reference Guide. Boston: G. K. Hall & Co., 1988, 160 p.

An annotated critical bibliography of general and scholarly commentary on Carroll's life and works, including editions, biographies, criticism, reminiscences, and unpublished dissertations.

Guiliano, Edward. "Lewis Carroll: A Sesquicentennial Guide to Research." In Dickens Studies Annual 10 (1982): 263-310.

Described by Guiliano as the "first prose guide to publications on Lewis Carroll"; includes sections on editions, stage and screen adaptations, psychoanalytic approaches, philosophy, and the language of the Alice books.

Weaver, Warren. Alice in Many Tongues. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1964, 147 p.

A study of the translations of Alice, with a chronological checklist of translations. Includes an essay on the difficulties of translating Alice, and samples of illustrations from foreign editions.

Criticism

Ackroyd, Peter. "The Road to Wonderland." In The New York Times Book Review C, No. 46 (November 12, 1995): 13.

Favorably reviews Morton N. Cohen's biography Lewis Carroll, which examines the private life of Charles Dodgson, documenting the circumstances surrounding his fondness for young girls and his dual successes as a children's author and respected instructor.

Bivona, Daniel. "Alice the Child-Imperialist and the Games of Wonderland." In Nineteenth Century Literature 41, No. 2 (September 1986): 143-71.

Places Alice's Wonderland adventures in the context of Hegelian philosophy and British Victorian imperialism.

Blake, Kathleen. Play, Games, and Sport: The Literary Works of Lewis Carroll. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1974, 216 p.

General discussion of the influence of games, symbolic logic, and play on Carroll's imaginative works. Individual chapters are devoted to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass.

Cripps, Elizabeth A. "Alice and the Reviewers." In Children's Literature: Annual of the Modern Language Association Seminar on Children's Literature and The Children's Literature Association 11 (1983): 32-48.

Surveys early critical and popular responses to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass.

Gardner, Martin, author of notes and introduction. The Annotated Alice: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1970, 352 p.

Annotated scholarly edition of the Alice books. Includes an introductory essay and a brief annotated bibliography.

Graves, Robert. "Alice." In Collected Poems: 1975, pp. 31-32. London: Cassell & Company Ltd., 1975.

The noted English novelist, classical scholar, and poet makes a poetical commentary on Alice's "queer but true" adventures in Through the Looking-Glass.

Gray, Donald J., editor. Alice in Wonderland: Authoritative Texts of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking-Glass, and The Hunting of the Snark, by Lewis Carroll. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1971, 434 p.

Critical edition of the Alice books with a brief introductory essay and a selected bibliography. Edition includes related Carroll material and several critical essays.

Henkle, Roger B. "The Mad Hatter's World." In The Virginia Quarterly Review 49, No. 1 (Winter 1973): 99-117.

Discusses the appeal of the Alice books for adults and suggests that the "madcap behavior" readers find in Alice offers an escape from the restrictions of adult reality.

Johnson, Paula. "Alice Among the Analysts." In Hartford Studies in Literature IV, No. 2 (1972): 114-22.

A brief survey of psychoanalytical approaches to the Alice books.

Kurrick, Maire Jaanus. "Carroll's Alice in Wonderland." In Literature and Negation, pp. 197-205. New York: Columbia University Press, 1979.

Explores the problem of language and subjectivity in Alice.

Phillips, Robert, editor. Aspects of Alice: Lewis Carroll's Dreamchild As Seen through the Critics 'Looking-Glasses, 1865-1971. New York: The Vanguard Press, Inc., 1971, 450 p.

A collection of essays organized by critical approach, and a checklist of selected criticism from 1865 to 1971. Includes sections on "Language, and Parody, and Satire," "Freudian Interpretations," and Alice "As Victorian and Children's Literature."

Polhemus, Robert M. "Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass (1871): The Comedy of Regression." In Comic Faith: The Great Tradition from Austen to Joyce, pp. 245-93. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1980.

Places Carroll's work in a literary tradition linking comedy and religion; focuses on Carroll's comic vision and his regression to childhood in Through the Looking-Glass.

Priestley, J. B. "The Walrus and the Carpenter." In The New Statesman LIV, No. 1378 (August 10, 1957): 168 p.

Contends that the Walrus and Carpenter episode in Chapter Four of Through the Looking-Glass is intended as political symbolism.

Pudney, John. "The Publication of Alice in Wonderland." In Only Connect: Readings on Children's Literature, edited by Sheila Egoff, G. T. Stubbs, and L. F. Ashley, pp. 238-43. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1980.

A brief account of the illustration and publication of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

Pycior, Helena M. "At the Intersection of Mathematics and Humor: Lewis Carroll's Alices and Symbolical Algebra." In Victorian Studies 28, No. 1 (Autumn 1984): 149-70.

Establishes a precedent for Dodgson's combination of humor and mathematics, and traces the influence of symbolical algebra on Dodgson, contending that its emphasis on "structure over meaning" is satirized in the Alices.

Rackin, Donald, editor. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: A Critical Handbook. Belmont: Wadsworth Publishing Company, Inc., 1969, 371 p.

Incorporates facsimile editions of the Alice books, a collection of the major critical essays from 1930 to 1966, and a selected bibliography. Donald Rackin's essay "Alice's Journey to the End of Night" (1966) is included in the entry above.

Shires, Linda M. "Fantasy, Nonsense, Parody, and the Status of the Real: The Example of Carroll." In Victorian Poetry 26, No. 3 (Autumn 1988): 267-83.

Explores the problem of reality in Carroll. With the help of "psychoanalytic and linguistic theory," discusses Dodgson's employment of fantasy, nonsense, and parody to "reverse .. . the real and the unreal" in Alice.

Additional coverage of Carroll's life and career is contained in the following sources published by Gale Research: Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Volume 2; Children's Literature Review, Volumes 2 and 18; Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 18; Discovering Authors; and Yesterday's Authors of Books for Children, Volume 2.