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DEFENDING LEWIS CARROLL

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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 20040516
Author:Joshua Glenn

IN RECENT YEARS Lewis Carroll has become as famous for taking cheesecake photos of young girls as for penning "Alice in Wonderland." But according to Will Brooker, an associate professor of communications at the American International University in London and author of the new book "Alice's Adventures: Lewis Carroll in Popular Culture" (Continuum), this image of the real-life Charles Dodgson as a proto-pedophile derives largely from an academic joke gone awry.

For years after his death Dodgson was regarded as an eccentric but kindly genius, says Brooker, who was reached by cell phone shortly ...

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