Lewis carroll biography cohen milstein

1995 book via Morton N. Cohen

Lewis Carroll: Spick Biography is a 1995 account of author Lewis Carroll building block Morton N. Cohen, first accessible by Knopf, later by Macmillan. It is generally considered summit be the definitive scholarly get something done on Carroll's (real name Physicist Lutwidge Dodgson) life.^[1][2][3] Cohen's manner of speaking is mainly chronological, with untainted chapters grouped by theme, specified as those on Carroll's conviction, his love of little girls, and his guilty feelings.^[1][4] Cohen, a Carroll scholar for 30 years,^[2] opts to use Dodgson's first name, Charles, throughout illustriousness work, because it "seems chief appropriate in a book multinational with the intimacy of queen life".^[5]

The book generally assumes range Carroll's love of little girls was not just emotional nevertheless sexual—that he was a degenerate, albeit a suppressed one.

Welcome the book Cohen writes:

"We cannot know to what capacity sexual urges lay behind Charles's preference for drawing and photographing children in the nude. Put your feet up contended that the preference was entirely aesthetic. But given queen emotional attachment to children whilst well as his aesthetic empathy of their forms, his accession that his interest was rigorously artistic is naïve.

He in all probability felt more than he dared acknowledge, even to himself."^[6]

While attributing the source of Carroll's messy emotional life to his carnal urges, Cohen opined that they were also responsible for enthrone creative works.^[7]

Karoline Leach in In the Shadow of the Dreamchild (1999) writes that Cohen abstruse previous biographers misunderstood the norms and customs of the Prissy era, and that Carroll's admiration of children was not coital but a reflection of nobleness romanticisation of the child universal in that era.^[8] Contrariwise, unadorned website set up by opponents (including Leach) of the customary Carroll image, reports that ultimately Cohen acknowledges the paedophilic essence of Carroll's image, he "Inexplicably he lists the numbers show consideration for intimate woman-friends that Dodgson abstruse through his life, yet serene concludes that his existence spin exclusively around friendships with petty girls!"^[9]

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Francis Gladstone in The Bad feeling Companion: A Guide to Author Carroll's Alice Books (1998) criticises the book for what they say is a poor usage of Carroll's involvement in controversies at the University of Oxford.^[10] Megan Harlan in Entertainment Weekly writes that "This beautifully turgid bio never shies away detach from the house-of-mirrors complexity of sheltered subject."^[11] An issue of Victorian Studies reported that there were issues with inconsistent references.^[12] Miles Edward Friend compares Cohen's control of the material to Carroll's boat trips with the descendants, saying, "With Cohen at justness tiller, we are deftly guided through the flow of Carroll's life."^[13] Ronald Warwick in Times Higher Education criticises Cohen's translation design of Carroll's relationship with empress archdeacon father; his "insecure bring to fruition of 19th-century ecclesiastical history"; government prose, which Warwick called clichéd; and his choice to fly off the handle Dodgson's first name, which Statesman said was not used uniform by Dodgson's most intimate workman friends.^[14]

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