Rollo in Emblemland

Rollo in Emblemland or Emblemland is a novel by John Kendrick Bangs, written in 1902 and published by R. H. Russell of New York. It is a tale inspired by the style of Lewis Carroll's 1865 book, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

Rollo in Emblemland
First edition cover of Rollo in Emblemland
AuthorJohn Kendrick Bangs and Charles Raymond Macauley
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
GenreFantasy novel, Parody
PublisherDoubleday, Page, & Co.
Publication date
1902
Media typePrint (hardback)
Pagesxvi, 150

In it, a young boy named Rollo falls asleep and finds himself not in Wonderland, but in "Emblemland", a place described by Cupid as "the home of all Emblems.... Emblems are signs and symbols. I'm an Emblem, because I am the symbol of love; Uncle Sam is the symbol of the United States, and John Bull is the symbol of England, and the Owl is the symbol of wisdom...."

The book features line drawings by Bang's co-author Charles Raymond Macauley

In 1907, Bangs wrote a parody of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland called Alice in Blunderland: An Iridescent Dream

2010 edition cover of Rollo in Emblemland

Bibliography
  • Bangs, John Kendrick (2010) Rollo in Emblemland. Evertype. ISBN 978-1-904808-58-9

Notes


    gollark: Not letting you do things because of (possible) *emotional* harm to other people is very problematic.
    gollark: That seems like kind of a stretch.
    gollark: Ethically, I don't think other people have the right to stop someone from deciding what stuff they can do with their own body/life/whatever.
    gollark: You can't just tell people to not be "insane" or whatever, and it's their body/life/whatever.
    gollark: What should be legally allowed or whatever and what you *should do* are different things.
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