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Eggs and Serpents: Natural History Reference in Lewis Carroll's Scene of Alice and the Pigeon
- Children's Literature
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 35, 2007
- pp. 27-53
- 10.1353/chl.2007.0016
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Alice's encounter with a Wonderland pigeon derives from a common scenario in nineteenth-century natural history publishing where a predator attacks a nest. The natural history intertext indicates that Carroll's Alice books use animal characters to reflect on Darwin's theory of species origin, on human identity, and on the child's place in nature.