tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8246797287811539521.post2507287345298176205..comments2022-04-07T10:37:46.850-05:00Comments on English 208b: The Impossible, Perverse and Strange: Charles Dodgson, a.k.a. Lewis Carroll, and Satire of "Alice..."Dahlia Porterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09174548009168267294noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8246797287811539521.post-50145357300085522642010-04-06T09:05:06.456-05:002010-04-06T09:05:06.456-05:00A beautiful example of how biography can distract ...A beautiful example of how biography can distract readers from issues in a text: this actually happens in the introduction to our edition, which spends many many pages on Carroll's biography and the composition of the work, to the exclusion of a discussion of its social and political investments. You are right to see a critique on monarchy and law (as Sam suggests too), and this may not fit neatly with the biographical data--but that doesn't mean it isn't there. The next question: if this is not merely an escapist book, but an intervention in social and political debates, what is it saying? How does its mode of parody work in contrast to Swift's indirect and direct satire?Dahlia Porterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09174548009168267294noreply@blogger.com