This monumental biography was prompted by Morton N. Cohen's belief that the Carroll revealed by the letters, diaries and works was not the same as the Carroll created by his biographers, and it was time to set the record straight. He traces the dual careers of Charles Dodgson, Fellow of Christ Church, Oxford, who made important contributions to mathematics and logic and to the life of the University, as well as being one of the pioneers of photography in Victorian England, and forging strong friendships with children, and ...
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This monumental biography was prompted by Morton N. Cohen's belief that the Carroll revealed by the letters, diaries and works was not the same as the Carroll created by his biographers, and it was time to set the record straight. He traces the dual careers of Charles Dodgson, Fellow of Christ Church, Oxford, who made important contributions to mathematics and logic and to the life of the University, as well as being one of the pioneers of photography in Victorian England, and forging strong friendships with children, and of Lewis Carroll, creator of Alice in Wonderland and The Hunting of the Snark, acknowledged masterpieces we still read today and precursors of surrealist writing. No biographer has addressed so judiciously the inner divisions which proved such a creative spur to Carroll's imagination and his genius. The text is enhanced by over 100 of Carroll's photographs and drawings.
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Good Condition. Dust jacket is fully intact. Alice in Wonderland postage stamp affixed to front free endpaper. Clean and bright internally. Sound and serviceable overall. Publisher's note: "Brilliant and compelling-the definitive biography of the uniquely inspired, witty, fanciful, complex, enigmatic, and enduring author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Who was Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, the pioneer photographer, Oxford don, and mathematician who, writing as Lewis Carroll, gave the world the Jabberwock, Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the Red Queen, the Hatter, the March Hare, and an unforgettable tea party? In this elegant, affectionate biography, Morton N. Cohen brings his singular expertise-gained from some thirty years' scholarship on Carroll as well as from special access to the Dodgson family documents-to the riddle of the quiet, stammering man who liberated children's books from the moralists and whose imagination brought forth some of the funniest nonsense, wildest characters, and most extraordinary cultural icons of modern times. His life has puzzled psychologists and literary historians for generations. Now, using newfound letters and with full mastery of Carroll's voluminous diaries, Cohen explores as never before the paradox of the man: the complete innocent whose passionate worship of young girls has elicited endless speculation-among everyone from Freudians to feminists; the tall, proper Victorian, dressed all in black, whose somber religious meditations shared a place in his mind with the Snark and the Boojum; the cloistered, lonely bachelor don whose magical books are known in virtually every culture in the world today and are nearly as widely quoted as Shakespeare and the Bible. What emerges is both an extraordinary work of scholarship and a portrait that is filled with admiration for Carroll's accomplishment, delight in his playfulness and charm, and sympathy for the self-reproach and emotional turbulence that underlay his apparently placid existence. A major literary biography."--Dust Jacket Size: 24.1 x 17.1 x 5 cm. xxiii, 577 pp. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898; Authors, English--19th century--Biography; Mathematics teachers--England--Oxford--Biography; Mathematicians--Great Britain--Biography; Photographers--Great Britain--Biography; Children's stories, English--Authorship; Oxford (England)--Biography; Oxfordshire (England)--Biography; ISBN: 0679422986. ISBN/EAN: 9780679422983. Add. Inventory No: 240403PBS003018.
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