Flora, Jack and Amelia: alternative Alices by victorian women writers

• Grant number: 14/21627-4
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: January 01, 2015
• End date: January 31, 2017
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Literature - Modern Foreign Literatures
• Agreement: Coordination of Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES)
• Principal Investigator: Cleide Antonia Rapucci
• Grantee: Guilherme Magri da Rocha
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências e Letras (FCL-ASSIS). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Assis. Assis , SP, Brazil
• Associated scholarship(s): 15/22913-3 - Christina Rossetti, Jean Ingelow and JULIANA h. Ewing: their lives and critical fortune, BE.EP.MS

Abstract

Lewis Carroll (1832-1898, real name Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) was one of the main names of the Golden Age of Children's Literature. Although the realm of didacticism had already been challenged by other authors at his time, he is one of the first in England that published a text that doesn't aim to model the reader. Until then, children's books were known to provide moral and religious instructions for the kids to become adults within their expected social boundaries. In Carroll's Alice books (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass and what Alice found there (1871)), the anti-heroine is emancipatory; she goes in search of a new knowledge. Well-known authors at the time, Christina Rossetti (1830 - 1894), Jean Ingelow (1820 - 1897) and Juliana Ewing (1841 - 1885) wrote works of fiction that are Carrollian hypertexts. This project aims to analyze the main characters of these texts through gender-based approaches and children's literature studies, in order to show how they are constructed and how they resemble and differ from the original Alice. (AU)

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

ROCHA, Guilherme Magri da. The alternative Alices of Christina Rossetti, Jean Ingelow, and Juliana Horatia Ewing. 2017. Master's Dissertation - Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp). Faculdade de Ciências e Letras. Assis Assis.