Juliet Dusinberre - Böcker

Lewis Carroll's Alice books created a revolution in writing for and about children which had repercussions not only for subsequent children's writers - such as Stevenson, Kipling, Nesbit, Frances Hodgson Burnett and Mark Twain - but for Virginia Woolf and her generation.

Lewis Carroll's Alice books created a revolution in writing for and about children which had repercussions not only for subsequent children's writers - such as Stevenson, Kipling, Nesbit, Frances Hodgson Burnett and Mark Twain - but for Virginia Woolf and her generation.

Of equal interest to students of Virginia Woolf and of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century writing, it discusses Montaigne, Donne, Sir John Harington, Dorothy Osborne, Madame de Sevigne, Pepys and Bunyan, together with forms of writing, such as essays, letters and diaries, traditionally associated with women.

This is a 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-19th century with developments in education and psychology, all of which feed into the modernism of the early 20th century.