As Above So Below? Madness and Nonsense in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

This chapter studies the nonsensical nature of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, but diverges from the bulk of nonsense theory in its inclusion of madness into our postulations on nonsense and meaning-making practices within the text. We begin by exploring the ways in which Western hegemonic societal discourses have defined nonsense and madness. We use this knowledge as a foundation from which to consider our primary thread of …