![]() Carroll was very much involved in the process and viewed the illustrations as an extension of his fiction. Victorian Web also has background information on the illustrator for the Alice stories, John Tenniel. List of Songs of Innocence and Experience copies, accompanied by a brief print history.Biography of William Blake at the EDSITEment-reviewed (and a longer biography is available at the Blake Archive).For the final activity on William Blake, the following biography and textual history of the Songs of Innocence and Experience may prove useful: For more background on the "myth of childhood" in the Victorian era, visit the Victorian Web essays on Beginnings, Myths of Childhood, and Autobiography and Childhood as a Personal Myth in Autobiography. ![]() A review of potential differences between the visions of Blake and Carroll is the focus of Activity 3. ![]() Notably, however, Blake's vision focuses less often on childish wickedness and more often focuses on societal problems that plague and hamper children's growth. Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience, reviewed in Activity 3, also nicely illustrates a kind of tension between the idyllic lifestyle and those marked by hardship. Second, and in conflict with this, is the desire to present childhood as an Edenic, blissful state, a time of past blessedness, a world completely different from the grating present."Ĭarroll's Alice stories illustrate this combination of childhood adversity and Edenic bliss. "First, is the need to emphasize childhood adversity, to portray oneself as not having been spoiled by overindulgence, even, in some cases, to have deserved hardship. Portraying images of childhood, then, tended toward two somewhat contradictory perspectives: He might be innocent, untainted by sexual knowledge, uncorrupted by the world of business, free from the agony of religious doubt yet he was also potentially wicked and needed constant guidance and discipline." But at the same time, and of course much less obviously, the child was a hardship, an obstacle to adult pleasure, and a reminder of one's baser self. "On the one hand the child was the source of hope, of virtue, or emotion: along with the angelic wife, he was the repository of family values which seemed otherwise to be disappearing from an increasingly secular world. This lesson plan discusses views of Victorian childhood, as detailed by LuAnn Walthe ("The Victorian Invention of Childhood"), at Victorian Web: Dodgson continued to write until his death from pneumonia in 1898, increasing the legend of "Lewis Carroll" and further obscuring Dodgson's true life from fans and biographers. Though Dodgson had published under the name Lewis Carroll before Alice's Adventures was released in 1865, it was then that the persona of Lewis Carroll was truly born. The biography details some known facts-as well as thoughtful speculation-about Dodgson's upbringing, his employment as a mathematical lecturer at Oxford, and his eventual friendship with a new Dean of Christ Church, Henry Liddell, his wife, and three daughters-including Alice-that led to the now legendary afternoon in which he sketched out the framework for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. ![]() The teacher of this lesson might review this brief biography of Dodgson at the EDSITEment-reviewed Victorian Web. Lewis Carroll, of course, is Dodgson's pseudonym, the name associated with the wonderful tales of Alice and her adventures. Karoline Leach, "Lewis Carroll: A Myth in the Making" 'Lewis Carroll' was born on March 1, 1856, and is still very much alive." He lived his life and eventually died on January 14, 1898. "Charles Dodgson was born on January 27, 1832. ![]()
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