Product Description: This award-winning multi-volume series is dedicated to making literature and its creators better understood and more accessible to students and interested readers, while satisfying the standards of librarians, teachers and scholars. Dictionary of Literary

Produced between 1869 and 1930 - the golden age of Carroll's influence on popular literature - these works trace the extraordinary creative, and often critical, response of diverse writers. These writers - male and female, radical and conservativeappropriated Carroll's structures, motifs, and themes in their Alice-inspired works in order to engage in larger cultural debates. Their stories range from Christina Rossetti's angry subversion of Alice's adventures, to G.E. Farrow's witty fantasy adventure, to Edward Hope's hilarious parody of social and political foibles. (view table of contents)