Through the Looking Glass
Study Guide for Second Exam
The second exam will cover major points from the first part of the course as well as the most important points covered since the first exam.  In preparation for the exam, concentrate on reviewing the assigned reading from Carroll and Cohen since the first exam.
Major Topics
Dodgson's Photography
Photography in the 19th Century
The Nature of Dodgson's Photographs
Biographical Material Pertaining to Dodgson's Photography
Other Aspects of Dodgson's Intellectual Life
Logic
Essays
Study Questions
How highly do you think Dodgson's phographic efforts should be regarded?
Do you believe Dodgson's relationships with children to have been as innocent as he represented them?
In what ways does Dodgson's method of treating arguments based on categorical propositions seem to be superior to Venn's?  In what ways is it not as good?
What argument strategy (or strategies) does Dodgson use in his essay on vivisection?
In what ways do the manners and practices we see portrayed in Mrs. Brown fit with the descriptions in Cohen of Victorian society?  How do they fit with the portrait of society that we see in Carroll's writing?

January 21, 2000   Revised 1/24/00