Modernism in Wonderland
Legacies of Lewis Carroll
Modernism in Wonderland
Legacies of Lewis Carroll
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With verve and imagination, Witen and Morgenstern have brought together an eclectic and stimulating new set of essays on Carroll’s modernist afterlives. Who could resist a tea-party (or should that be a caucus race?) at which such “older children” – Joyce and Flann O’Brien, Woolf and Kate Chopin, Eliot and Dorothy L. Sayers, Walter Benjamin and Auden, Borges, Marquez, and Nabokov, Plath and Elizabeth Bishop - are gathered? When James Joyce called Jung and Freud Tweedledum and Tweedledee, he was proving Carroll’s immense capacity for explaining the modern world. The essays in this collection confirm this over and over again. They expel the idea that Modernism was a rejection of Victorian culture; that Carroll’s Alice books could be perceived as peripheral to the development of 20th Century Literature. And they affirm that modernist writers drew on Carroll because he revealed how threatening the regimes of reason, knowledge, and social ritual could be; and because he showed ways of contesting those regimes. There’s glory for you.
With verve and imagination, Witen and Morgenstern have brought together an eclectic and stimulating new set of essays on Carroll’s modernist afterlives. Who could resist a tea-party (or should that be a caucus race?) at which such “older children” – Joyce and Flann O’Brien, Woolf and Kate Chopin, Eliot and Dorothy L. Sayers, Walter Benjamin and Auden, Borges, Marquez, and Nabokov, Plath and Elizabeth Bishop - are gathered? When James Joyce called Jung and Freud Tweedledum and Tweedledee, he was proving Carroll’s immense capacity for explaining the modern world. The essays in this collection confirm this over and over again. They expel the idea that Modernism was a rejection of Victorian culture; that Carroll’s Alice books could be perceived as peripheral to the development of 20th Century Literature. And they affirm that modernist writers drew on Carroll because he revealed how threatening the regimes of reason, knowledge, and social ritual could be; and because he showed ways of contesting those regimes. There’s glory for you.
Michelle Witen is Junior Professor of English and Irish Literature at the Europa-Universität Flensburg, Germany and Director of the EUF Centre for Irish Studies. She is the author of James Joyce and Absolute Music (Bloomsbury 2018) and co-editor of the special issue of the James Joyce Quarterly on “Joyce and the Nonhuman” (2020/21). John D. Morgenstern is a scholar of 20th-century literature and the arts who has taught in England, Germany, and the United States. He now serves as an associate librarian at Emory University. John is the co-editor of The Edinburgh Companion to T. S. Eliot and the Arts (2016) and the founding editor of The T. S. Eliot Studies Annual.
With verve and imagination, Witen and Morgenstern have brought together an eclectic and stimulating new set of essays on Carroll’s modernist afterlives. Who could resist a tea-party (or should that be a caucus race?) at which such “older children” – Joyce and Flann O’Brien, Woolf and Kate Chopin, Eliot and Dorothy L. Sayers, Walter Benjamin and Auden, Borges, Marquez, and Nabokov, Plath and Elizabeth Bishop - are gathered? When James Joyce called Jung and Freud Tweedledum and Tweedledee, he was proving Carroll’s immense capacity for explaining the modern world. The essays in this collection confirm this over and over again. They expel the idea that Modernism was a rejection of Victorian culture; that Carroll’s Alice books could be perceived as peripheral to the development of 20th Century Literature. And they affirm that modernist writers drew on Carroll because he revealed how threatening the regimes of reason, knowledge, and social ritual could be; and because he showed ways of contesting those regimes. There’s glory for you.
Michelle Witen is Junior Professor of English and Irish Literature at the Europa-Universität Flensburg, Germany and Director of the EUF Centre for Irish Studies. She is the author of James Joyce and Absolute Music (Bloomsbury 2018) and co-editor of the special issue of the James Joyce Quarterly on “Joyce and the Nonhuman” (2020/21). John D. Morgenstern is a scholar of 20th-century literature and the arts who has taught in England, Germany, and the United States. He now serves as an associate librarian at Emory University. John is the co-editor of The Edinburgh Companion to T. S. Eliot and the Arts (2016) and the founding editor of The T. S. Eliot Studies Annual.