Modernism in Wonderland

<p>Retracing the steps of a surprising array of 20th-century writers who ventured into the fantastical topsy-turvy world of Lewis Carroll's fictions this book demonstrates the full extent of Carroll's legacy in literary modernism. Testing the authority of language and mediation through extensive word-play and genre-bending the Alice</em> books undoubtedly prefigure literary modernism at its upmost experimental.</p><p><br></p><p>The collection's chapters look beyond literary style to show how Carroll's writings had a far-reaching impact on modern life from commercial culture to politics and philosophy. This book shows us the Alice </em>we recognize from Carroll's novels but also the Alice</em> modernist writers encountered through the looking-glass of these extraliterary discourses. Recovering a common touchstone between the likes of T. S. Eliot James Joyce Virginia Woolf W. H. Auden and writers conventionally regarded on the periphery of modernist studies such as Dorothy L. Sayers Sylvia Plath Jorge Luis Borges Flann O'Brien and Vladimir Nabokov this volume ultimately provides a new entry-point into a more broadly conceptualised global modernism.</p>