<DIV><i>Alice beyond Wonderland</i> explores the ubiquitous power of Lewis Carroll&rsquo;s imagined world. Including work by some of the most prominent contemporary scholars in the field of Lewis Carroll studies, all introduced by Karoline Leach&rsquo;s edgy foreword, <i>Alice beyond Wonderland</i> considers the literary, imaginative, and cultural influences of Carroll&rsquo;s 19th-century story on the high-tech, postindustrial cultural space of the twenty-first century.<BR><br> The scholars in this volume attempt to move beyond the sexually charged permutations of the &quot;Carroll myth,&quot; the image of an introverted man fumbling into literary immortality through his love for a prepubescent Alice. Contributions include an essay comparing Dantean and Carrollian underworlds, one investigating child characters as double agents in untamed lands, one placing Wonderland within the geometrical and algebraic &ldquo;fourth dimension,&rdquo; one investigating the visual and verbal interplay of hand imagery, and one exploring the influence of Japanese translations of <i>Alice</i> on the Gothic-Lolita subculture of neo-Victorian enthusiasts. This is a bold, capacious, and challenging work.</div>