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.

Another Case Of Physical Abuse In Childhood Between Age 7-11 And Alice In Wonderland-Like Seizures Retrospectively Described By A 45 Years-Old Man In Detail

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Bittmann
Keyword(s):  
Symptomatic Treatment ◽  
Lewis Carroll ◽  
Neurological Deficits ◽  
Barr Virus ◽  
Children's Book ◽  
Alice In Wonderland ◽  
Sense Of Time ◽  
Epstein Barr ◽  
Primary Focus ◽  
Accompanying Symptoms

The phenomenon of Alice in Wonderland Syndrome is not considered a disease in its own right but usually occurs as an accompanying symptom of a migraine attack or as a precursor of an epileptic seizure in the form of an aura with pronounced visual perceptual disturbances [1]. However, an Alice in Wonderland syndrome can also be caused by the Epstein-Barr virus, influenza virus [18], drugs [3] or encephalitis [2]. The term "Alice in Wonderland syndrome" was named after the children's book Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll and coined by John Todd as a possible, but not essential, concomitant of migraine and epilepsy [1]. Carroll suffered from migraines himself; it is believed that his experiences with the condition served as inspiration for the hallucination-like effects described in his work [1]. In addition, Carroll's narrative has been discussed as a description of a trip following consumption of mind-altering drugs. In one of the most famous sequences in the book, Alice changes size by biting off pieces from different sides of a mushroom. However, there is no evidence of drug use by Lewis Carroll. Alice in Wonderland syndrome results in changes in the perception of one's surroundings [6,7]. These changes include both micropsia and macropsia (everything appears reduced or enlarged), as well as altered auditory perception, altered tactile perception, an altered sense of time. The syndrome is particularly common in children. Attacks are often shorter and may also be completely painless, although accompanying symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, and sensitivity to light and sound is more pronounced. Neurological deficits may occur so that the affected child begins to hallucinate. He or she perceives his or her body as larger or smaller and/or begins to see "fantastic images“. The changes in perception can severely affect affected individuals, causing them to become disoriented and "unable to find their way around." In extreme cases, falls and other accidents may occur. The perceptual disturbances can lead to Alice in Wonderland syndrome being confused with other mental disorders or misinterpreted as "craziness". The primary focus is the treatment of the underlying condition, such as symptomatic treatment of migraine. Recent publications shed light on sexual abuse in childhood as the origin of AIWS-like visual disturbances [4,5].

Caricature

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine J. Golden
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Lewis Carroll ◽  
William Makepeace Thackeray ◽  
Book Illustration ◽  
Vanity Fair ◽  
Alice In Wonderland ◽  
Full Page ◽  
Book Illustrations

In its theatricality, caricature-style book illustration approximates the tableau style popular in the nineteenth century. This chapter examines book illustrations by George Cruikshank, Phiz, Richard Doyle, John Leech, and Robert Cruikshank that, like tableaux, capture a dramatic moment in works by Dickens, Ainsworth, and Thackeray. With lighting, props, clever casting, and detail-laden backdrops, the caricaturists staged scenes ranging from the sensational to the sentimental, from the deeply psychological to the broadly comic. “Caricature: A Theatrical Development” adds two Victorian author-illustrators to this list of recognized caricaturists. Better known as an author than an illustrator, William Makepeace Thackeray designed theatrical pictorial capital letters, vignettes, tailpieces, and full-page engravings for his best-known Vanity Fair (1848) and cast his heroine Becky Sharp in various stage roles. To dramatize Alice’s transformations, Lewis Carroll recalled popular caricature techniques in his illustrations for the first version of Alice in Wonderland (1865) entitled Alice’s Adventures Underground(1864) at a time when realistic illustration held sway. This chapter also examines artistic limitations and scandals (e.g. Robert Seymour’s suicide, Cruikshank’s claim of authoring Dickens’s works) that led to a dismissal or devaluation of the caricaturists and a privileging of the Academy trained artists who entered the field of illustration in the 1850s.

Chronology

2019 ◽  
pp. 273-310
Author(s):  
Stephen Burt ◽  
Tim Burt
Keyword(s):  
Solar Eclipse ◽  
Extreme Events ◽  
Heat Waves ◽  
Lewis Carroll ◽  
Alice In Wonderland ◽  
Weather Observations ◽  
River Thames

This chapter deals with extreme events and spells of weather in Oxford, some of them before the Radcliffe Observatory was built, but mostly based on the weather observations since 1767. Events such as heat waves, cold spells, severe gales, floods, droughts, snowfall and even the solar eclipse of 11 August 1999 are included. The chapter concludes with coverage of the most recent year, 2018, with its exceptionally hot summer. The description includes more descriptive coverage of some specific events, including the day in July 1862 when Lewis Carroll took Alice Liddell and her sisters boating on the River Thames, a day out which led directly to him writing Alice in Wonderland.

Discrepancy to Variability

2019 ◽  
pp. 245-264
Author(s):  
Steven J. Osterlind
Keyword(s):  
Hypothesis Testing ◽  
Thought Experiment ◽  
Latin Squares ◽  
Lewis Carroll ◽  
Statistical Hypothesis ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Statistical Hypothesis Testing ◽  
Research Designs ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Charles Dodgson

This chapter describes quantification during the late nineteenth century. Then, most ordinary people were gaining an overt awareness, and probability notions were seeping into everyday conversation and decision-making. However, new forms of abstract mathematics were being developed, albeit with some opposition from Lewis Carroll (Charles Dodgson), who wanted to preserve traditionalist views of Euclidian geometry. The chapter introduces William Gossett, who worked in the laboratory of the Guinness brewery and developed “t-distribution,” which was published as “Student’s t-test.” It also describes his friendship with Sir Ronald Fisher, who developed many statistical hypothesis testing methods, published in The Design of Experiments, such as the ANOVA procedure, and the F ratio. Fisher also developed many research designs for hypothesis testing, both simple and complex, including the Latin squares design, as well as providing a classic description of inferential testing in the thought experiment called “the lady tasting tea.”

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll)

1932 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-43
Author(s):  
David Eugene Smith
Keyword(s):  
Elementary Mathematics ◽  
The Other ◽  
Lewis Carroll ◽  
Alice In Wonderland ◽  
Christ Church

“… that peculiar love of nonsense so characteristic of the English genius. It springs only from genius as seen in the Shakespearean Fools, Lear's Book of Nonsense, Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, and the other two inspired works of that rather prim and starchy don, who vainly tried to infuse elementary mathematics into Christ Church undergraduates.” — Henry Wood Nevinson, Rough Islanders, George Routledge and Sons, Ltd., London, 1931, pp. 227.

scholarly journals “Alice in Wonderland” Syndrome: A Manifestation of Infectious Mononucleosis in Children

1991 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 163-166 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eliezer Lahat ◽  
Gideon Eshel ◽  
Aharon Arlazoroff
Keyword(s):  
Infectious Mononucleosis ◽  
Visual Symptoms ◽  
Alice In Wonderland

The association between “Alice in Wonderland” Syndrome (AWS) and infectious mononucleosis (IM) has been previously described in three patients. We describe two additional cases in children, where in one case, the visual symptoms of AWS appeared during the course of active IM and in the second, 2 weeks following a clinically mild, but serologically proven attack.

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