Contextualising Carroll: The Contradiction of Science and Religion in the Life and Works of Lewis Carroll

Some of the main points of the book include:

How the advance of science in Victorian England impacted Carroll's religious views.
His relationship with Alice and other young girls.
He was driven by logic.
He was involved in radical theology towards the end of his life.
He did have some religious doubts.
His family cut pages out of his diaries and destroyed other materials. The question remains exactly why they did that.
He desperately avoided fame.
He was very intolerant of any negative statements made about religion.
He was very much against vivisection (the cutting up of live animals for 'science.')
Animals are equal to humans in Wonderland.
He may have had a hard time overcoming his feelings for Alice Liddell.
Photos of children kept them eternally young.

There's also footnotes and a bibliography.


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