A note on Humpty Dumpty / J.B. Priestley -- Escape into the garden / Florence Becker Lennon -- Alice in wonderland : the child as swain / William Empson -- The balance of brillig / Elizabeth Sewell -- Through the looking-glass / Alexander L. Taylor -- From "The character of Dodgson as revealed in the writings of Carroll" / Phyllis Greenacre -- The poetry of wonderland / Richard Kelly -- Love and death in Carroll's Alices / Donald Rackin -- Toward a definition of Alice's genre : the folktale and fairy-tale connections / Nina Demurova -- The unreal Alice / Karoline Leach -- Alice's identity / Hugh Haughton -- Introducing Alice / Will Brooker -- Afterthought / Harold Bloom.