How Long to Read From Alice to Algernon

How Long Does it Take to Read From Alice to Algernon?

It takes the average reader to read From Alice to Algernon by Holly Virginia Blackford

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During the late Victorian period, Charles Darwin's theories took the world by storm, and the impact of evolution on research into the developing human mind was impossible to overlook. Thereafter the study of children and childhood became a means to theorize, imagine, and apply the concept of evolution in a broad range of cultural productions. Beginning with the watershed Victorian era, From Alice to Algernon: The Evolution of Child Consciousness in the Novel examines the creative transformation these theories underwent as they filtered through the modern novel, especially those that examined the mind of the child. By examining the connection between authors and trends in child psychology, author Holly Blackford explains why many modern novels began to focus on child cognition as a site for intellectual and artistic exploration. In each chapter of this book, select novels of the late-nineteenth or twentieth century are paired with a specific moment or movement from the history of developmental psychology. Novels such as Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn and Henry James's What Maisie Knew, or Radclyffe Hall's less-canonical The Well of Loneliness and even Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, showcase major questions about human epistemology through their child characters. From Lewis Carroll's Alice and her looking-glass to Richard Wright's Bigger Thomas and the murder of Mary Dalton to the chaotic Neverland--symbolizing the unmappable child's brain--a literary tradition of child consciousness has emerged as an experimental site for the unstable concepts of evolution, civilization, and development. By situating literature about children within concurrent psychological discourses, Blackford demonstrates how the modern novel contributed to the world's understanding of the boundless wonders and discernible limits of child consciousness. HOLLY BLACKFORD is a professor of English at Rutgers University, Camden. She is the author of Out of this World: Why Literature Matters to Girls; Mockingbird Passing: Closeted Traditions and Sexual Curiosities in Harper Lee's Novel; The Myth of Persephone in Girls' Fantasy Literature; and editor of 100 Years of Anne with an 'e': The Centennial Study of Anne of Green Gables and Something Complete and Great: The Centennial Study of My Ántonia.

How long is From Alice to Algernon?

From Alice to Algernon by Holly Virginia Blackford is 0 pages long, and a total of 0 words.

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How Long Does it Take to Read From Alice to Algernon Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes to read From Alice to Algernon aloud.

What Reading Level is From Alice to Algernon?

From Alice to Algernon is suitable for students ages 2 and up.

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