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Lewis Carroll
Under the pen name Lewis Carroll, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson became a legend for his children's books, which broke the constraints of Victorian moralism. Thirty years in the writing and drawn from a voluminous fund of letters and diaries, this exemplary biography conveys both the imaginative fancy and human complexity of the creator of Alice in Wonderland. Photos.
Lewis Carroll
Lewis Carroll: Interviews and Recollections is more than a biography of the author of the Alice books; it is a record of the man as people knew him. Here is a collection of reminiscences about Lewis Carroll (1832-98) as recalled by his teachers, friends, relatives, colleagues and pupils who provide anecdotes of the schoolboy, proficient in Latin and mathematics at the age of 12, the gifted undergraduate and don, the eldest male of a large family dealing with his brothers' and sisters' problems and of the author of some of the best known children's classics in the English language.
Ecology Without Nature
In Ecology without Nature, Timothy Morton argues that the chief stumbling block to environmental thinking is the image of nature itself. Ecological writers propose a new worldview, but their very zeal to preserve the natural world leads them away from the "nature" they revere. The problem is a symptom of the ecological catastrophe in which we are living. Morton sets out a seeming paradox: to have a properly ecological view, we must relinquish the idea of nature once and for all. Ecology without Nature investigates our ecological assumptions in a way that is provocative and deeply engaging. Ranging widely in eighteenth-century through contemporary philosophy, culture, and history, he explores...
The Secret Keeper
A cloth bag containing ten copies of the title.
Reflections in a Looking Glass
A catalog of an exhibition held at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center.
The Ecological Thought
In this passionate, lucid, and surprising book, Timothy Morton argues that all forms of life are connected in a vast, entangling mesh. This interconnectedness penetrates all dimensions of life. No being, construct, or object can exist independently from the ecological entanglement, Morton contends, nor does ÒNatureÓ exist as an entity separate from the uglier or more synthetic elements of life.
Lewis Carroll & His Illustrators
This new collection of the letters that Lewis Carroll wrote to the illustrators and prospective illustrators of his books affords fresh insights into Carroll's complex character, traces the history of the books that became great classics of the Victorian era, and charts the sometimes tempestuous seas of Carroll's relationships with his correspondents. Carroll, a meticulous artist, made detailed demands upon his illustrators, who included John Tenniel, Henry Holiday, Arthur Burdett Frost, Harry Furniss, and Gertrude Thomson.Lewis Carroll and His Illustrators reveals the author as an expert in the details of book production in an age in which new technologies repeatedly altered the publishing ...
