In The Shadow Of The Dreamchild

Author : Karoline Leach
Publisher : Peter Owen Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0720616662
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Shadow of the Dreamchild written by Karoline Leach and published by Peter Owen Publishers. This book was released on 2014-06-01 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revolutionary and much-acclaimed study of the work and motives of the Alice In Wonderland authorThis is the most significant biographical work on the author of Alice In Wonderland to be published in recent years, and this new edition marks the 150th anniversary of the publication of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Karoline Leach's study contends that Carroll was far from being emotionally—and sexually—obsessed with female children and his "muse" Alice Liddell. She tells the strange story of how the false image of Carroll came into being and how he adored—and was adored by—women of all ages and enjoyed adult relationships that woud have scandalized the Victorian age in which he lived. The author gained access to unpublished evidence from the family archive, as well as letters and diaries, that led her to uncover Carroll's secret passion for another member of "Alice's" family. In The Shadow of The Dreamchild is a radical re-evaluation of the life and work of one of England's most mysterious literary figures, and the revised edition expands on Leach's important research.

Author : Karoline Leach
Publisher : Peter Owen Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Shadow of the Dreamchild written by Karoline Leach and published by Peter Owen Publishers. This book was released on 1999 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has long been suggested that Lewis Carroll entertained sexual thoughts about the young girl who was the inspiration for Alice. This book rejects such claims and uses hitherto-unpublished evidence to suggest the real focus for his affections.

Author : Karoline Leach
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Shadow of the Dreamchild: a New Understanding of Lewis Carroll written by Karoline Leach and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Karoline Leach
Publisher : Peter Owen Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780720618594
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Shadow of the Dreamchild written by Karoline Leach and published by Peter Owen Publishers. This book was released on 2015-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "'Lewis Carroll was not the tragic deviant all previous biographers have assumed him to be. He was not in love with Alice Liddell or obsessed with little girls...The objects of his intense sexual desire were women, full-blooded, 'tall and lithe'. His one testament of passion is of erotic physical consummation with a mature and powerful woman. In his most private writings, he identified himself with the sin of David, which was not masturbation, or unruly fantasy, but adultery.....David's Psalm of keening repentance, 'make me a clean heart oh God', was Dodgson's most frequently-invoked prayer...'This is the central argument that has made this new biography of Lewis Carroll both controversial and enthralling.It uses new research to show that the long-standing image of Lewis Carroll (the pen-name of the author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson): his exclusively child-centred and unworldly life, his legendary obsession with Alice Liddell, and his supposedly unnatural sexuality, are in fact nothing more than myths.With precision and analysis the book traces the development of this false persona and demonstrates how generations of biographers have helped to create fictions about Lewis Carroll's life, rather than bring the documentary facts before the public. The dismantling of the myth, and the new image that is put in its place are inevitably controversial. Not everyone will be able to accept its conclusions, but the amount of new original research it contains means it is an immensely significant book, and one that anyone who has any interest in Lewis Carroll and his work, probably ought to have read.With its careful analysis, and its Gothic tale of cut pages, death bed confessions and hidden secrets, it is both an important scholastic work, and a book for anyone who enjoys an historical detective story." -- Amazon.com.

Author : Hilary Hemingway
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0765384639
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dreamchild written by Hilary Hemingway and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-06-23 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Max is not your usual five-year-old boy. Unable to speak, shy and strange, he was conceived while his mother was the victim of an alien abduction. Max is a unique being: a hybrid of human and alien. He carries the fate of all mankind in his tiny hands. And now that the government has discovered his powerful connection to the aliens, will Max survive long enough to fulfill his purpose--for either side? At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Jenny Woolf
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1429968397
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mystery of Lewis Carroll written by Jenny Woolf and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2010-03-04 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new biography of Lewis Carroll, just in time for the release of Tim Burton's all-star Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carroll was brilliant, secretive and self contradictory. He reveled in double meanings and puzzles, in his fiction and his life. Jenny Woolf's The Mystery of Lewis Carroll shines a new light on the creator of Alice In Wonderland and brings to life this fascinating, but sometimes exasperating human being whom some have tried to hide. Using rarely-seen and recently discovered sources, such as Carroll's accounts ledger and unpublished correspondence with the "real" Alice's family, Woolf sets Lewis Carroll firmly in the context of the English Victorian age and answers many intriguing questions about the man who wrote the Alice books, such as: • Was it Alice or her older sister that caused him to break with the Liddell family? • How true is the gossip about pedophilia and certain adult women that followed him? • How true is the "romantic secret" which many think ruined Carroll's personal life? • Who caused Carroll major financial trouble and why did Carroll successfully conceal that person's identity and actions? Woolf answers these and other questions to bring readers yet another look at one of the most elusive English writers the world has known.

Author : Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674967798
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Story of Alice written by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Douglas-Fairhurst illuminates two entangled lives: the Oxford mathematician Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) and Alice Liddell, the child for whom he invented the Alice stories. This relationship influenced Carroll’s imaginative creation of Wonderland—a sheltered world apart during the stormy transition from the Victorian to the modern era

Author : David Bentley Hart
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781621382492
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dream-Child's Progress written by David Bentley Hart and published by . This book was released on 2017-02-05 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 51 Essays on Books, Authors, Words, Politics, et al. And an annotated reading list of 30 favorite books "for a very long trip."

Author : Regina Abt
Publisher : Daimon
ISBN 13 : 3856305920
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dream Child written by Regina Abt and published by Daimon. This book was released on 2000 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The broad scope of the dream material analyzed in this book allows the authors to touch upon many subjects associated with the nature of the psyche, not only those relevant to pregnant women. The careful interpretation of the amplificatory material drawn from a wide range of cultures also makes this an inspiring aid for the understanding of dreams, valuable to psychologists, doctors, midwives or anyone else interested in this human subject.

Author : Peter E. Paul Dembski
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN 13 : 1771122277
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Travels and Identities written by Peter E. Paul Dembski and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2017-01-05 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elizabeth Smith Shortt was one of the first three women to obtain a medical degree in Canada, and her husband, Adam Shortt, enjoyed a successful career as a professor of politics and economics at Queen’s University in Kingston. In 1908 Adam Shortt relocated his family to Ottawa to take up a commission to oversee civil service reform under Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier. There he convinced his superiors that an onsite investigation of four European countries would expedite his effort to improve Canada’s bureaucracy, and in June 1911 he and Elizabeth embarked on their trip. This book chronicles their Atlantic crossing and extended visit to England, as well as trips to Switzerland, Austria, Germany, and the Netherlands. The Shortts were generally pleased with England and its values, but Elizabeth was sharply critical of the behaviour of British nurses. Her diaries and letters, here reprinted, critiqued the lands and peoples she visited in Europe. Leading foreign feminists such as Lady Chichester and Mrs. Maud of the Mothers’ Union in England sought her advice, as did Alice Salomon in Germany, the corresponding secretary of the International Council of Women. The diaries and letters presented in this volume reveal the multifaceted nature of Adam and Elizabeth Shortt, from public figures to difficult employers to a couple who couldn’t help but live beyond their means. Peter E. Paul Dembski’s introduction paints a picture of a couple who lived as moderate liberals with occasional conservative or radical views, and who blended science and an adherence to Protestant Christianity into their thinking. Their travel experiences, during a period of building political upheaval, provide a valuable snapshot of pre–First World War European society and culture.