Curioser and Curioser: Exploring Wonderland With Alice

The main points of this paper include:

Alice goes from one confusing event to another yet manages to desire what there is to see next.

Most of the stories of the time were in two camps. One camp had their writings dealing with religious and rational topics, informational essays and stories of 'exemplary' children. The other camp was related to Dodgson's writings which had no specific moral to them at all.

Alice in Wonderland was the book that seemed to change the course of British literary for young people from the didactic to the fun.

Charles Dodgson taught math so it's not surprising that his books have math references in them.

Carroll's parody of traditional poems satirizes the more traditional poetry of the time.

Children were expected to memorize many poems. Carroll made fun of that and also made poetry fun.

Alice in Wonderland has never been out of print.

The Nursery Alice was not a commercial success.

Alice in Wonderland appeared in many versions with different artists. Arthur Rackham's illustrations were on the more frightening side than those of many other illustrators. (I also think his are among the best of over 70 illustrators I've looked at.)

Disney's Alice in Wonderland movie met a lukewarm reception.

There are a lot of comic book versions of Alice in Wonderland. (They range from the pretty traditional approach to the nearly X-rated approach of Zenescope's series.)

Alice in Wonderland has appeared in over 170 languages.

Through the Looking Glass was originally titled Alice II.

Lewis Carroll developed some tie-ins to his story.

There have been both board games and computer games based on Alice in Wonderland.

Companies since then have made money off Alice in Wonderland-related products such as videos and cartoons.

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