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Cohen, Morton Norton was born on February 27, 1921 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Came to the United States, 1934. Son of Samuel Cohen and Zelda Jenny Miller.
(Under the pen name Lewis Carroll, Charles Lutwidge Dodgso...)
Under the pen name Lewis Carroll, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson became a legend for his children's books, which broke the constraints of Victorian moralism. Thirty years in the writing and drawn from a voluminous fund of letters and diaries, this exemplary biography conveys both the imaginative fancy and human complexity of the creator of Alice in Wonderland. Photos.
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Charles Lutwidge Dodgson was a pioneering photographer, Oxford don and mathematician, who - as Lewis Carroll - gave the world not only Alice, but the Jabberwocky, the Red Queen, the Mad Hatter, the March Hare, the Cheshire Cat and an unforgettable tea party. But who was he? In this elegant, affectionate biography, Morton N. Cohen brings a singular expertise - drawn from some thirty years' scholarship on Carroll as well as from special access to the Dodgson family documents - to the riddle of the quiet, stammering man who liberated children's books from the moralists and whose imagination brought forth some of the funniest nonsense, wildest characters and most extraordinary cultural icons of modern times. His life has puzzled psychologists and literary historians for generations. Now, with full mastery of Caroll's letters and voluminous diaries, Cohen explores as never before the paradox of the man: the unworldly innocent whose passionate worship of young girls has incited endless speculation; the Victorian gentleman whose sombre religious meditations shared a place in his mind with the Snark and the Boojum; the cloistered, lonely bachelor don whose magical books are known in every culture in the world today. What emerges is a portrait that is filled with admiration for Carroll's accomplishment, delight in his playfulness and charm and sympathy for the self-reproach and emotional turbulence that lay beneath Carroll's apparently placid existence. Lewis Carroll: A Biography is an extraordinary work of literary scholarship.
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Study of Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) as Victorian age photographer of children, illustrated with four of Dodgson's hand-colored photos, possibly the only surviving examples of his photos of nude children.
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A groundbreaking book, the only volume of first-class reproductions of Lewis Carroll's photographs. Published on the one hundredth anniversary of the death of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll), Reflections in a Looking Glass presents Carroll's remarkable photography. Richly illustrated, this important book presents seldom-seen works-most of them formal portraits and staged scenes that combine Carroll's famous childlike sense of play with the Victorian propriety that characterized his age. Also included in Reflections are selected drawings by Lewis Carroll and by John Tenniel, who illustrated the original Alice books. The central text by Morton N. Cohen, the world's leading authority on Lewis Carroll, provides an in-depth account of Carroll's experimentations in the new medium of photography. His hobby opened the door to many of his "child friends" as well as to leading artistic and literary figures of the day, all of whom came to Carroll's studio to sit for their portraits. Excerpts from Carroll's diaries combine with Cohen's annotated captions to make this book an invaluable resource. The book also includes a Preface by Mark Haworth-Booth, curator of photographs at the Victoria and Albert Museum. The Afterword is by Roy Flukinger, curator of photographs at the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin, the source collection for much of the material in this extraordinary book.
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Cohen, Morton Norton was born on February 27, 1921 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Came to the United States, 1934. Son of Samuel Cohen and Zelda Jenny Miller.
AB, Tufts University, 1949. Master of Arts, Columbia University, 1950. Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia University, 1958.
He is best known for extensive studies of children"s author Lewis Carroll including the 1995 biography Lewis Carroll: A Biography. He has taught English at West Virginia University, Syracuse University, Rutgers University and the City College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New New York Among his dedicated work on Charles Dodgson, he has also produced studies on Henry Rider Haggard, Rudyard Kipling and other Victorian subjects, as well as children"s literature, travel articles and fiction.
The Modern Language Association set up the biennially Morton North. Cohen Award for a Distinguished Edition of Letters in his name in 1989.
The first award was given in 1991. Under the terms of the award, the "winning collection will be one that provides readers with a clear, accurate, and readable text.
Necessary background information. And succinct and eloquent introductory material and annotations.
The edited collection should be in itself a work of literature.".
(Charles Lutwidge Dodgson was a pioneering photographer, O...)
(Study of Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) as Victorian age...)
(Under the pen name Lewis Carroll, Charles Lutwidge Dodgso...)
(Interesting discussion of Carroll\'s photography as it co...)
( A groundbreaking book, the only volume of first-class r...)
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Sergeant United States Army, 1943-1945. Fellow Royal Society Literature. Member Lewis Carroll Society North America, Lewis Carroll Society Japan, Lewis Carroll Society, American Trust British Library.
(member advisory council 1980), Century Association.