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Gemmabeta t1_j2drtpz wrote

There is a term for this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literary_nonsense

Alice as much as there is supposed to be a "point" to the books, the main one seems to be riffing of the endless number of po-faced didactic moralistic poetry that Victorian children were force-fed as part of their education.

All of the poetry in the two books are nonsense parodies of those poems.

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Slowky11 t1_j2fuq8w wrote

This is the correct answer, but the inception of Alice was to entertain the Liddell sisters, most affectionately, Alice Liddell. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Liddell

It sort of grossed me out that such an impacting text in children’s literature was created with the likely intention of grooming a child. Yet Carroll’s quirky and nonsensical methods worked and the imagination of Wonderland has lasted a century and a half.

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