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- Title
"Keeping Christmas" on the Page: The Adelaide Observer, Alice in Wonderland, and the Australian Periodical at Play.
- Authors
Howard, Elizabeth
- Abstract
This article explores the rise of diversion genres in the South Australian Adelaide Observer in the 1860s. Setting examples of the Australian periodical at play within a larger British context of competitive leisure, I argue that the Observer 's Christmas pages present competitive periodical diversions as essential to observing the holiday. Further, the Observer 's serial reprinting of Alice in Wonderland in its Christmas pages underscores the puzzle-like quality of Carroll's Alice such that Alice and the Christmas pages reify one another's status as competitive diversions.
- Subjects
CHRISTMAS; CHRISTMAS gifts
- Publication
Victorian Periodicals Review, 2022, Vol 55, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
0709-4698
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/vpr.2022.0000