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In the Shadow of the Dreamchild: A New Understanding of Lewis Carroll

In the Shadow of the Dreamchild: A New Understanding of Lewis Carroll

In the Shadow of the Dreamchild: A New Understanding of Lewis Carroll

In the Shadow of the Dreamchild: A New Understanding of Lewis Carroll

por Karoline Leach

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Reviews Charles Dodgson - aka Lewis Carroll, the author of the Alice books - was interested in photography, and his enthusiasm for photographing naked small girls has meant that he has come to be regarded as a passive paedophile. This new book sets out to show that this reputation is undeserved, and does so triumphantly. Dodgson's family appear to have tolerated the accusations of paedophilia in order to disguise a more enthusiastic interest in mature women - a less forgivable moral lapse! The book is a strange, fascinating and entirely original piece of research, showing considerable insight into Victorian social attitudes. (Kirkus UK) --.

In a vigorous effort to subvert the "potent mythology" surrounding Lewis Carroll, ne Charles Dodgson (1832-1898) - that he was a "Victorian clergyman, shy and prim, and locked to some degree in perpetual childhood," and, oddly at the same time a pedophile - Leach, a British playwright, claims that Dodgson had relationships with several mature women, albeit often selfish and cruel ones. These included the artist Gertrude Thomson and the writer Anna Thackery. The eponymous "dreamchild" is Alice Liddell, the daughter of Dodgson's dean at Christ College, Oxford, upon whom Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is based and for whom Dodgson assumed the role of attentive father figure. But by studying the "psychological crisis" evident in Dodgson's fragmentary journals (many pages were cut out and destroyed by relatives who feared scandal), Leach suggests Dodgson was more involved with Liddell's wife than with Alice and proposes that the seemingly suggestive photos of young girls that Dodgson took stem, in part, from "strange Victorian child-cult" in which "innocence was expressed ultimately through an affected and devotional love of children." As artfully told as a fine detective story, Leach's story of what truly seems a conspiracy among Dodgson scholars cogently argues that although new materials on Carroll have been released since the late 1970's (his unexpurgated diary, Leach says "is at present being prepared for publication"), the permanent sabotage of many of his papers has made it virtually impossible ever to attain a clear picture of this unusual individual. --Publishers Weekly

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 345-347) and index.

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Nº do estoque do livreiro
APM00001
Título
In the Shadow of the Dreamchild: A New Understanding of Lewis Carroll
Autor
Karoline Leach
Estado do livro
Usado
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1
Edição
First
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ISBN 10
0720610443
ISBN 13
9780720610444
Editorial
Peter Owen Publishers
Local de publicação
London
Data de publicação
1999-03
Páginas
294
Palavras-chave
Lewis Carroll; Alice Liddle

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