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Alice Through the Looking-Glass

A Companion

by Franziska E. Kohlt (Volume editor) Justine Houyaux (Volume editor)
©2024 Edited Collection VIII, 412 Pages

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Summary

This book offers a truly interdisciplinary exploration of the polymathic influences that shaped Through the Looking-Glass, the lesser explored sequel to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. It explores the work’s diverse historical intellectual influences as well as its kaleidoscopic afterlives, including scholars from the history of science, logic, philosophy, theology, literature, popular and visual culture, and translation studies as well as practitioners in business, data science, writing, and visual arts. The collection also offers insights into the minds of those who adapt, pastiche, or translate the Looking-Glass with an original poem, three new Jabberwockies, and an Italian translation of Looking-Glass’s iconic poem. This collection thus encourages us to re-evaluate the intellectual scope and place in society of this work.

Details

Pages
VIII, 412
Year
2024
ISBN (Softcover)
9781800799844
Language
English
Published
Oxford, Berlin, Bruxelles, Chennai, Lausanne, New York, 2024.

Biographical notes

Franziska E. Kohlt (Volume editor) Justine Houyaux (Volume editor)

Franziska E. Kohlt is a scholar of comparative literature, history of science, and science communication. She is a Leverhulme Research Fellow at the University of Leeds and the Inaugural Carrollian Fellow of the University of Southern California. She holds a doctorate from the University of Oxford, where she explored the shared histories of Victorian psychology and fantastic literature. She has published extensively on the life and works of Lewis Carroll, Victorian science, and childhood cultures. Justine Houyaux is a researcher and doctoral candidate at the Centre Interdisciplinaire de Recherche en Traduction et en Interpretation at the University of Liège, where her research focuses on culture-specific elements in the French translations of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, the prosopography of Carroll’s Interwar translators, and the Surrealist reception of Carroll’s works. She recently edited the annotated Alice au pays des merveilles : Traduction et illustrations de René Bour (2023).

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