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| Acknowledgments | ||
| Introduction | ||
| Mopsa the Fairy (1869) | 3 | |
| Amelia and the Dwarfs (1870) | 28 | |
| From Speaking Likenesses (1874) | 50 | |
| Behind the White Brick (1879) | 66 | |
| Wanted - A King; or, How Merle Set the Nursery Rhymes to Right (1890) | 79 | |
| A New Alice in the Old Wonderland (1895) | 146 | |
| Justnowland (1912) | 179 | |
| Ernest (1869) | 193 | |
| From Nowhere to the North Pole: A Noah's Ark-Aeological Narrative (1875) | 206 | |
| Down the Snow Stairs; or, From Good-Night to Good-Morning (1887) | 223 | |
| Davy and the Goblin, or What Followed Reading "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" (1885) | 235 | |
| The Wallypug of Why (1895) | 243 | |
| New Adventures of "Alice" (1917) | 268 | |
| Uncle Wiggily in Wonderland (1916) | 289 | |
| From David Blaize and the Blue Door (1919) | 299 | |
| The Westminster Alice (1900-1902) | 331 | |
| Clara in Blunderland (1902) | 340 | |
| Alice in Blunderland, An Iridescent Dream (1907) | 348 | |
| Alice and the Stork: A Fairy Tale for Workingmen's Children (1915) | 361 | |
| Alice in the Delighted States (1928) | 368 | |
| Selected Bibliography | 387 |
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Brian Roland
reviewed Alternative Alices on September 07, 2008
Alternative Alices
This book is made up almost entirely of Alice in Wonderland pastiches, some intentional and some accidental on the part of their authors. Yes, there are some stories which subvert the common Victorian children's literature tropes more than the Alice books already do, but not signficantly more. And there are a few political parodies towards the end, but, on the whole, it's a book of Victorian and Edwardian Alice pastiches, some more successful than others.
None, even the more successful ones, come anywhere close to the wit and style of the Alice books, which makes this anthology a disappointment to someone coming to try to read more books in that vein. Rather, it's simply fascinating as a study of Victorian literature, and the effect Lewis Carroll had on it. The sentimentality and didacticism can get simply overwhelming if one isn't prepared for them, and I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone without a particular interest in Victorian children's literature - it's too overwhelming to foist on the ususpecting.
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Add Alternative Alices, Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking Glass (1871) are among the most enduring works in the English language. In the decades following their publication, writers on both sides of the Atlantic produced no fewer than two hundred, Alternative Alices to the inventory that you are selling on WonderClubX
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Add Alternative Alices, Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking Glass (1871) are among the most enduring works in the English language. In the decades following their publication, writers on both sides of the Atlantic produced no fewer than two hundred, Alternative Alices to your collection on WonderClub |
