Lewis Carroll’s fame is undoubtedly tied to the centrality of childhood in his works, both in relation to the content of his works and to the modalities of invention and writing: it is this latter aspect that my article intends to investigate. Most illuminating are the special occasions in which he cultivated his friendship with his young friends, and among these his photographic practice is particularly important. As a matter of fact, his ‘glass-house’ becomes a sort of stage where the photographic sitting alternates with his narration of stories invented or reelaborated in that moment for and with his child friends/models. This analysis is meant to explore the ways in which the close occurrence between the proceedings of photographic production and literary invention gave birth to forms of literary contamination by photography, forms really unprecedented and subversive, which contributed to significantly accelerating the renewal of current literary canons and to foreshadowing Modernism and the Avant-garde.

The photographic Eye and the Vision of Childhood in Lewis Carroll

MALLARDI, Rosella
2010-01-01

Abstract

Lewis Carroll’s fame is undoubtedly tied to the centrality of childhood in his works, both in relation to the content of his works and to the modalities of invention and writing: it is this latter aspect that my article intends to investigate. Most illuminating are the special occasions in which he cultivated his friendship with his young friends, and among these his photographic practice is particularly important. As a matter of fact, his ‘glass-house’ becomes a sort of stage where the photographic sitting alternates with his narration of stories invented or reelaborated in that moment for and with his child friends/models. This analysis is meant to explore the ways in which the close occurrence between the proceedings of photographic production and literary invention gave birth to forms of literary contamination by photography, forms really unprecedented and subversive, which contributed to significantly accelerating the renewal of current literary canons and to foreshadowing Modernism and the Avant-garde.
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