Lewis Carroll

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. (Annotated) Lewis Carroll

Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-The purpose of realizing this historical context is to approach the understanding of a historical epoch from the elements provided by the text. Hence the importance of placing the document in context. It is necessary to unravel what its author or authors have said, how it has been said, when, why and where, always relating it to its historical moment. Lewis Carroll reflects in Alice the characteristics of the Victorian Era, when he lived and wrote. Allusions are constant the ideals of his time, embodied in those writers who rejected the romantic authors of the first quarter of a century. Thus Dickens, Tennyson or Thackeray were the most representative authors. There was a total boom in almost all areas: scientific (Darwin's theories), economic (industrial revolution), social (a moot aspect due to the hardships of the proletarian masses), technological (the railroad), geographical (the conquest of India and travels by Africa of Stanley and Livingstone). Carlyle and Dickens are witness and complainant authors of an era when social injustices were the order of the day. Much of the proletariat had many aspirations and managed to obtain a general education (which included reading and writing) so the authors felt mass educators.