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Author Ackerman, Sherry L

Title Behind the looking glass / by Sherry L. Ackerman
Published Newcastle, U.K. : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2008

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Description 1 online resource (x, 169 pages)
Contents TABLE OF CONTENTS; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CONCLUSION; APPENDIX A; APPENDIX B; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
Summary Behind the Looking Glass offers a fresh perspective in the ongoing, contemporary deconstruction of the Carroll Myth. Through rigorous examination of numerous myths that have been hitherto unquestioned, Ackerman skillfully positions Lewis Carroll in the theological and philosophical contexts of his time. She uncovers a Carroll whose radical religio-philosophical counter-response to patriarchal materialism moved his intellectual journey, intentionally or otherwise, deep into the waters of mysti..
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-156) and index
Notes English
Subject Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898 -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898 fast
Subject Children's stories, English -- History and criticism
Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers.
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Children's stories, English
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2008425255
ISBN 9781443804561
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