Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland celebrates its 150th anniversary in 2015. Carroll’s text famously ushers in a ‘golden age’ of children’s literature, in which fantasy and imagination begin to receive as much attention as pedagogy in books for children. This course will explore the origins, development and transformation of the text across the last 150 years, and consider why Wonderland still matters as much in 2015 as it did in 1865.