By Sherry Ackerman
ISBN-10: 1847184863
ISBN-13: 9781847184863
Behind the having a look Glass demonstrates how 19th century currents of spiritualism, theosophy and occult philosophy co-mingled with Carroll s curiosity in revived Platonism and Neoplatonism, showcasing the Alice and Sylvie and Bruno books as detailed issues of conjunction among Carroll s mind and spirituality. The scholarship during this paintings, whereas rigorous, is softly combined with the type of educational frivolity that Carroll himself may need loved. Ackerman exposes a Carroll who, having misplaced trust within the theological and mythological grasp plots of prior eras, grew to become towards the inventive fiction of wonderlands rife with philosophical content material based on his instinctive starvation for cosmic coherence and existential order.
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