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A Fairy-Tale Fantasy in Victorian Children´s Literature: Lewis Carroll´s Alice in Wonderland and Charles Kingsley´s Water Babies
TÝMALOVÁ, Monika
The aim of this thesis is a comparative analysis of two popular novels of English children's literature, Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through The Looking-Glass and Charles Kingsley's The Water Babies. In the theoretical part the thesis gives information about the life and work of these two authors, and about the general development and particular features of fantastic children's literature. The interpretation draws on Tolkien's essay On Fairy-Stories, which focuses on three primary features: escape, renewal and consolation. The analysis itself deals with the following themes: children and adults, the picture of the other world, danger and violence, friendship and return. In this respect, the thesis outlines the similarities and differences in both authors' attitudes to fantasy genre.

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