Alice to the lighthouse
Subtitle: children's books and radical experiments in art
By: Juliet Dusinberre.
Publisher: Macmillan; St. Martin's Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Basingstoke, Hampshire [England]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
Subjects: Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 -- Technique.; Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898 -- Influence.; Children's literature, English -- History and criticism.; English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; Children's literature, American -- History and criticism.; American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; Children -- Books and reading -- English-speaking countries.; Children -- Books and reading -- History -- 20th century.; Literature, Experimental -- History and criticism.
Description: "Alice to the Lighthouse is the first and only full-length study of the relation between children's literature and writing for adults. Lewis Carroll's Alice books created a revolution in writing for and about children which had repercussions not only for subsequent children's writers - Stevenson, Kipling, Nesbit, Frances Hodgson Burnett and Mark Twain - but for Virginia Woolf and her generation." "Virginia Woolf's celebration of writing as play rather than preaching is the twin of the Post-Impressionist art championed by Roger Fry. Dusinberre connects books for children in the late nineteenth century with developments in education and psychology, all of which feed into the modernism of the early twentieth century."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 324-335) and index.