Charles Dodgson and Alice in Wonderland syndrome

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (11) ◽  
pp. 890-891
Author(s):  
Jan Dirk Blom
Keyword(s):  
Alice In Wonderland ◽  
Charles Dodgson

scholarly journals Hothouse Victorians: Art and Agency in Freshwater

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 183-193
Author(s):  
Kristine Swenson
Keyword(s):  
Gender Norms ◽  
Adult Women ◽  
Female Agency ◽  
Generational Change ◽  
Isle Of Wight ◽  
To The Lighthouse ◽  
Alice In Wonderland ◽  
Artistic Freedom ◽  
Charles Dodgson

Abstract The Victorian artistic community that grew up on the Isle of Wight around Tennyson and Julia Margaret Cameron has been reimagined in Virginia Woolf's play, Freshwater (1923, 1935), and more recently in Lynn Truss's novel, Tennyson's Gift (1996). Whereas Freshwater should be read as modernist or post- Victorian, Tennyson's Gift is neo-Victorian and postmodern in its form and attitude. Integral to both are the discontent of women and the disruption of gender norms. Therefore, this essay looks particularly at the question of female agency in a Victorian world envisioned in 1923-35 and one of 1996. In Freshwater, one sees a serious exploration of generational change and the desire for artistic freedom, especially through the character of Ellen Terry. Freshwater is a dress rehearsal for To the Lighthouse. Truss reimagines Freshwater by adding to Woolf's cast the unstable Charles Dodgson, whose Alice in Wonderland becomes the familiarizing scaffolding for readers in a Victorian world that seems as strange as Wonderland did to Alice. Here, female agency is elusive - too-knowing little girls hold sway and adult women use their power, rather pathetically, to win and hold the undeserving men they love.

scholarly journals The Neurology of Alice in Wonderland

1982 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 453-457 ◽  
Author(s):  
T.J. Murray
Keyword(s):  
Lewis Carroll ◽  
Visual Symptoms ◽  
Young Girls ◽  
Alice In Wonderland ◽  
Charles Dodgson

SUMMARY:Charles Dodgson, better known as Lewis Carroll, author of the famous Alice stories, developed migraine and associated visual symptoms late in life. There has been considerable speculation that the bizarre phenomena and weird visual imaginery in Alice stories was directly related to the author’s migraine.This paper reviews several aspects of the character and health of Lewis Carroll including his shy, introspective personality, his stuttering and his attraction to young girls. It is concluded that there is no connection between the visual symptoms of migraine and the phenomena described in the Alice stories which were written over 25 years before the author developed migraine in his mid-fifties.

Institution-Induced Stability

2019 ◽  
pp. 84-102
Author(s):  
Kenneth A. Shepsle
Keyword(s):  
Political Theory ◽  
Majority Rule ◽  
Institutional Arrangements ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Lewis Carroll ◽  
Simple Majority ◽  
Simple Majority Rule ◽  
Technical Literature ◽  
Marquis De Condorcet ◽  
Charles Dodgson

Simple majority rule is badly behaved. This is one of the earliest lessons learned by political scientists in the positive political theory tradition. Discovered and rediscovered by theorists over the centuries (including, famously, the Majorcan Franciscan monk Raymon Llull in the thirteenth century, the Marquis de Condorcet in the eighteenth, the Reverend Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) in the eighteenth, and Duncan Black in the twentieth), the method of majority rule cannot be counted on to produce a rational collective choice. In many circumstances (made precise in the technical literature), it is very likely (a claim also made precise) that whatever choice is produced will suffer the property of not being “best” in the preferences of all majorities: for any candidate alternative, there will always exist another alternative that some majority prefers to it. This chapter suggests that while a collection of preferences often cannot provide a collectively “best” choice, institutional arrangements, which restrict comparisons of alternatives, may allow majority rule to function more smoothly. That is, where equilibrium induced by preferences alone may fail to exist, institutional structure may induce stability.

Alice in Wonderland syndrome associated with influenza virus infection

2020 ◽  
Vol 62 (12) ◽  
pp. 1391-1393
Author(s):  
Kazuo Kubota ◽  
Hiroaki Shikano ◽  
Hidehiko Fujii ◽  
Yoshiki Nakashima ◽  
Hidenori Ohnishi
Keyword(s):  
Influenza Virus ◽  
Virus Infection ◽  
Influenza Virus Infection ◽  
Alice In Wonderland
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