‘I’ll be judge, I’ll be jury’: ‘Tail’-Telling, Imperialism and the Other in Alice in Wonderland
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https://doi.org/10.21153/pecl2010vol20no2art1142Keywords:
Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking-Glass, Lewis Carroll, race, other, Victorian children's literatureAbstract
The review and analysis of Lewis Carroll's Alice - both 'Alice in Wonderland' and 'Through the Looking-Glass' are discussed. Alice portrays a child immersed in Victorian cultural perceptions of race and in contemporary English attitudes to the Other.
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