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• 'All Sorts of Pitfalls and Surprises': Competing Views of Idealized Girlhood in Lewis Carroll's Alice Books

  From: Children's Literature

  200310,021 words Critical essay [(essay date 2003) In the following essay, Geer argues that the framing structures Carroll uses to bookend the more fantastical aspects of his Alice in Wonderland novels emphasize the differences between adult and...

• (Un)surprisingly natural: a response to Angelika Zirker

  Author:Jennifer GeerFrom:Connotations (Vol. 17, Issue 2-3) Peer-Reviewed

  May 20074,720 words Article Surprise is an integral part of Lewis Carroll's Alice books, and Angelika Zirker's analysis of "what is surprising to [Alice] and what is not" (19) is an insightful one. After all, even the title of Alice's Adventures...