Ironic voyage / Robert Martin Adams -- The Alice books and the metaphors of Victorian childhood / Jan B. Gordon -- Alice and Wonderland / Nina Auerbach -- The philosopher's Alice / Peter Heath -- The Sylvie and Bruno books as Victorian novel / Edmund Miller -- Carroll's Alices / Alwin L. Baum -- Plain superficiality / Judith Crews -- Lewis Carroll, laughter and despair, and The hunting of the snark / Edward Guiliano -- Love and death in Carroll's Alices / Donald Rackin -- Carroll's well-versed narrative / Beverly Lyon Clark -- Carroll's quest romance / John Hollander.