MUSEUM OF MODERN MYTHOLOGY AND POP CULTURE

ALICE IN WONDERLAND

1865. Symbolism and satire unmask the Victorian Age, not to mention our own, while seven year old Alice tries to find logic in a bizarre world of no reason. Alice's creator, Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), was a lecturer in mathematics at Christ Church, Oxford, and lived from 1832 to 1898. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland tells the story of a girl who falls down a rabbit-hole into a realm populated by talking playing cards and anthropomorphic creatures. Alice was a publishing sensation loved by children and adults, including a young Oscar Wilde and Queen Victoria. In 1903 the first Alice movie appeared. Alice is one of the most important figures in the pantheon of Mythic characters; the heroine on a quest for sense in a world of the absurd---influencing later characters in weird surroundings, such as, Mrs. Peel of The Avengers, and Dorothy of Wizard of Oz.

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