Alice to the Lighthouse: Children's Books and Radical Experiments in Art

Dusinberre, J

ISBN 10: 0333373405 / ISBN 13: 9780333373408

Published by Macmillan, 1987

About this Item

This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Book contains pencil markings. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Library sticker on front cover. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,700grams, ISBN:0333373405.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Alice to the Lighthouse: Children's Books and Radical Experiments in Art
• Publisher: Macmillan
• Publication Date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0333373405
• ISBN 13: 9780333373408
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Poor
• Weight: 700 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature

About this title

Synopsis

Alice to the Lighthouse is the first and only full-length study of the relation between children's literature and writing for adults. Lewis Carroll's Alice books created a revolution in writing for and about children which had repercussions not only for subsequent children's writers--Stevenson, Kipling, Nesbit, Frances Hodgson Burnett and Mark Twain--but for Virginia Woolf and her generation. Virginia Woolf's celebration of writing as play rather than preaching is the twin of the Post-Impressionist art championed by Roger Fry. Juliet Dusinberre connects books for children in the late nineteenth century with developments in education and psychology, all of which feed into the modernism of the early 20th century.

About the Author

JULIET DUSINBERRE is M. C. Bradbrook Fellow in English at Girton College, Cambridge, and is the author of Virginia Woolf's Renaissance: Woman Reader or Common Reader? and of the pioneering work, Shakespeare and the Nature of Women (2nd edition). She is now editing As You Like It for Arden 3.