Alice finds

[chelseagirl]

I'll cross-post this to Alice's Adventures and Wonderland Inc.; I've been collecting materials for my class next semester and finding wonderful things.

-- J. Otto Siebold's very bizarre Alice pop-up book. There's a second Alice pop-up out, but it's watered-down Tenniel style, so I let that one alone

-- The paperback edition with the Mervyn Peake illustrations and the intros by Will Self and Zadie Smith

-- American McGee's Alice -- thanks to everyone in the communities who gave me info and links! Now that we've got a shiny new computer, I'm all set to play.

-- *Lewis Carroll & His Illustrators* -- a whole book just of correspondence!

-- *Alternative Alices*, a book I found in the NYU library. The editor assures us that these other Victorian heroines are far more confident and assertive than Alice; I think she's determined to assert her thesis at the cost of accuracy, because none of them seem nearly as engaging as Alice is, despite her assertions . . . Still, I think I'll pull one of the stories (Christina Rossetti's is the best, or E. F. Benson's more modern one) and give it to the class as contrast.

-- and even VOGUE did an extensive Alice-inspired fashion layout this month.

Comments

[teenygozer.livejournal.com]

First dibs on anything you wanna sell or toss when the class is over!!!

What exactly can I do to help you out with this, by the way? Can I send you a CD of images that I've been collecting? Would any of my many weirdo Alice inspired books help? I read your wonderful syllabus, but didn't quite know what I could to do to help out. Yes, I'm being a feeb, but I need more specific direction. I'm not very pro-active, I know. :(

[chelseagirl.livejournal.com]

A CD of images would be *really* useful -- most editions out there have the Tenniel illustrations, so I'm looking for other visuals especially. I've got More Annotated Alice and the Mervyn Peake illos, and that's about it. Also, I'd love to know about any good websites you've found, especially with strong visual components.

What sorts of weirdo Alice inspired books have you got?

[starroses.livejournal.com]

There is an Alice exhibit in the Youth Wing at the Central branch of the Brooklyn Public Library.

[chelseagirl.livejournal.com]

Thanks. Is this ongoing, or running for a particular period of time?

That's actually quite a reasonable field trip from the East Village, I think. :-)

[starroses.livejournal.com]

I can ask tomorrow, I'm not sure. The other displays change almost monthly but this one has been up since early Oct when I started work.

It's a quick hop on the 2/3.

[chelseagirl.livejournal.com]

Please do let me know! In any case, I'd like to check it out, even if it's going to close too early for my next-semester kids.

[seanmoon.livejournal.com]

Off Topic: Hello, I saw you added me, so I wandered over and added you back. Interesting LJ! We have a bunch of common interests, mostly writers, it looks like.

On Topic: I have a really cool Alice book illustrated by Ralph Steadman--very creepy and menacing.

Also, have you seen Jeff Noon's sequel Automated Alice? I just got into him and am planning on picking up that one next. I think he illustrated it himself.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0517704900/qid=1070992824//ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i0_xgl14/104-8366094-8936767?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

[chelseagirl.livejournal.com]

Hi! You happened to have popped up in several of my friends' journals the other day, so I checked out your journal and thought I would like to read it. (I'm only now getting over my shyness about adding people I don't already know, but lately a couple of interesting people have friended me, so I've been trying to do the same . . . )

Oh good -- I was afraid I was imagining that Steadman had done an edition! I'm going to have to look for it on alibris -- I'm sure it's a real contrast to the Tenniel illustrations! (Speaking of creepy and menacing, have you seen the American McGee's Alice computer game? I've never played computer games, though my husband's very fond of his PS2, but I'm still haunted by the images I saw when we loaded it a few days ago, and looking forward to delving in over Christmas break . . .)

I did read the Noon book -- actually the first thing I've read by him -- and liked it enough to put it on the reading list for the seminar on Lewis Carroll I'm teaching next semester. Thanks for the Amazon link; I'd bought a UK paperback at St. Mark's Books and it looks like Amazon.com sells the same edition, so hopefully the book order for the class will be okay . . .