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Alice in Wonderland: A Masterpiece of Victorian Pornography?

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Well his is certainly an interesting essay. Like so many children I did not like Carroll's book, but as an adult I was enthralled by his writing. Yet, like many others, I sensed an hidden undercurrent. David Hunter does not try to bare Carroll's character as does Morton Cohen, but he does explain the setting and the language. From this he deducts hidden or double meanings in the text,(ae to be not respectable = to be not dressed, ect). This he does very cleverly, and I think, quite convincingly. Whether he is always right with his interpretation is debatable off course. I think is is right to state that Hunter says what many have wanted to say, and produced proof for what many sensed. He may go over the top a bit, but for a publication like this one that should be acceptable. Could it nor be true that Carroll's book contains the proper and the inproper? Was not he himself a conflict between deeply held belief and unacceptable desire? Why should the conflict within the man not continue in his writing? We know that Alice in Wonderland was a compilation of stories Carroll told the Liddel children on their rowing boat trips. Taking that, and what Hunter wrote, into account one wonders what Carroll was thinking off and wether all these double meanings were as obvious to him then as they are to Hunter now. It is a pity that the publication was obviously done on a minimal budget, even so I feel that anyone who is interested in Carroll and his writing will find this book very interesting.