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

Dusinberre, Juliet

ISBN 10: 0333373405 / ISBN 13: 9780333373408

Published by Palgrave Macmillan, 1987

About this Item

Hardback first edition with dustjacket, 1987. Owner's name inscribed, else as new and unread. A landmark of children's literature criticism. Language: eng Language: eng.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Alice to the Lighthouse: Children's Books and Radical Experiments in Art
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0333373405
• ISBN 13: 9780333373408
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

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.