Redefining the grotesque body: Alice’s curious appetite and laughter.

• Main Author: Hu, Fengshan.
• Other Authors: Tamara Silvia Wagner
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Literature::English
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/46418
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Lewis C. Carroll's Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass are novels that through their distortions of the real diverge from mainstream Victorian realism. By foregrounding the discrepancy between the grotesque universe of Alice’s Wonderland and the harsh lived reality of Victorian so...