Talk:Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Alice reception upon release has been open to much debate as many say it was received generally positive upon release and generally negatively upon release.^[1]

Alice, was, based on many 21st century discussions, published to generally positive reviews.^[2][3] One magazine declared it "exquisitely wild, fantastic, [and] impossible".^[4] Other magazines such as Aunt Judy’s Magazine and John Bull were very positive of the work.^[5] In a negative review from The Ath upon the books release, they stated, "We fancy that any real child might be more puzzled than enchanted by this stiff, over-wrought story."^[6]

In the late 19th century, Walter Besant wrote that Alice in Wonderland "was a book of that extremely rare kind which will belong to all the generations to come until the language becomes obsolete".^[7]

Many magazines in the 20th century and 21st saw Alice as received negatively upon release.^{[8] [9]} While there were many who were extremely critical of the work upon release, it also received praise. Despite this, a major focal point became the criticism to a point where the book was seen as been considered to have an infamous reception upon release and was later re-envaulted in the sense that the work was never considered "great literature" upon release and by others that it was not met "with much enthusiasm".^{[10] [11]} These views of the works reception have made the works reception upon release quite debatable.^[12]

Despite this discussion, the work garnered acclaim throughout the 20th century.

No story in English literature has intrigued me more than Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. It fascinated me the first time I read it as a schoolboy.

— Walt Disney in The American Weekly, 1946.^[13]

F. J. Harvey Darton argued in a 1932 book that Alice ended an era of didacticism in children's literature, inaugurating a new era in which writing for children aimed to "delight or entertain".^[14] In 2014, Robert McCrum named Alice "one of the best loved in the English canon" and called it "perhaps the greatest, possibly most influential, and certainly the most world-famous Victorian English fiction".^[15] A 2020 review in Time states: "The book changed young people's literature. It helped to replace stiff Victorian didacticism with a looser, sillier, nonsense style that reverberated through the works of language-loving 20th-century authors as different as James Joyce, Douglas Adams and Dr. Seuss."^[16] The protagonist of the story, Alice, has been recognised as a cultural icon.^[17] In 2006, Alice in Wonderland was named among the icons of England in a public vote.^[18]

F. J. Harvey Darton argued in a 1932 book that Alice ended an era of didacticism in children's literature, inaugurating a new era in which writing for children aimed to "delight or entertain".^[14]

In 2014, Robert McCrum named Alice "one of the best loved in the English canon" and called it "perhaps the greatest, possibly most influential, and certainly the most world-famous Victorian English fiction".^[15] A 2020 review in Time states: "The book changed young people's literature. It helped to replace stiff Victorian didacticism with a looser, sillier, nonsense style that reverberated through the works of language-loving 20th-century authors as different as James Joyce, Douglas Adams and Dr. Seuss."^[16] The protagonist of the story, Alice, has been recognised as a cultural icon.^[19] In 2006, Alice in Wonderland was named among the icons of England in a public vote.^[20]