Modernism in Wonderland

Michelle Witen is Junior Professor of English and Irish Literature at the Europa-Universität Flensburg, Germany and Director of the EUF Centre for Irish Studies. She is the author of James Joyce and Absolute Music (Bloomsbury 2018) and co-editor of the special issue of the James Joyce Quarterly on “Joyce and the Nonhuman” (2020/21). John D. Morgenstern is a scholar of 20th-century literature and the arts who has taught in England, Germany, and the United States. He now serves as an associate librarian at Emory University. John is the co-editor of The Edinburgh Companion to T. S. Eliot and the Arts (2016) and the founding editor of The T. S. Eliot Studies Annual.

1. Introduction: Twentieth-Century Wonderlands: Michelle Witen, Europa-Universität Flensburg, Germany
2. ‘Speak in French when you can’t think of the English’: Carroll’s French and Mallarmé’s English: Alexandra Lukes, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
3. T. S. Eliot's Adventures in Wonderland: John D. Morgenstern, Emory University, USA
4. Fantastic Surrealism: The Influence of Lewis Carroll's Wonderland on transition Magazine's American Surrealist Literary Experiments (1927–38): Céline Mansanti, University of Picardie Jules Verne, France
5. Alice and the Expansion of the American West: Modernism, the Northern Pacific Railroad's Wonderland Route, and Kate Chopin’s The Awakening: Michelle E. Moore, College of Dupage, USA
6. 'Open Alice's Door': Lewis Carroll’s Influence on Elizabeth Bishop and Sylvia Plath: Jessica R. McCort, Point Park University, USA
7. Becoming a Child: Lewis Carroll and Virginia Woolf's Poetics of Fluidity and Permanence: Teresa Prudente, University of Turin, Italy
8. Reeling and Writhing in Benjamin's Arcades: The Curious Case of the Girl who Wasn't There: Lisa Mullen, University of Cambridge, UK
9. 'These tautomeric changes': The Figures of Alice and Humpty Dumpty in the Work of W. H. Auden: Allan Pero, University of Western Ontario, Canada
10. Nightmares of History: Modernism and Colonialism in Lewis Carroll and Jorge Luis Borges: David Conlon, Maynooth University, Ireland
11. 'Sentence First Verdict Afterwards': Carroll, Nabokov and the Fragmented Body: Yaeli Greenblatt, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
12. 'You're nothing but a pack of cards!': Carrollian Intertextuality and the Detective Fiction of Dorothy L. Sayers: Ann Martin, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
13. ‘The Mime of Mick, Nick and the Maggies’; or '“Alice” on the Stage': James Williams, University of York, UK
14. Wasting Timelessness: Lewis Carroll, Flann O'Brien and Modernist Temporality: Paul Fagan, Maynooth University, Ireland