Paper Topic

For my paper, I would like to focus on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland as a breakthrough for children's literature. Before the creation of Alice, children's literature was brutal, morbid, and kind of scary. The stories were created to teach the children a lesson or scare them out of doing things that were frowned upon. Alice gave children a story to read that wouldn't give them nightmares, but instead allow them to use their imaginations. Without Alice, I feel as though children's literature would not have started to head in the direction of Disney type of stories and nursery rhymes.