From a literary perspective, however, the more important point here is that no romance exists in the Alice books in the modern version of "romances." Carroll draws on images of chivalry for various scenes but only as tropes. So there is little "romance" in the medieval sense either: romance as great deeds carried out by honorable figures who save others.
The White Knight makes an appearance and is quite kindly. But his encounter with the Red Knight is reminiscent of T.H. White's jousters who behaved with such a lack of panache or competence, the Wart gets worried for them.
The most "romantic"--in the older sense of the word--event occurs when Alice meets the fawn. There is a quiet pathos to the scene that exists in the older tales: Dante and Virgil gain quiet moments between meeting sinners and saints and monsters as well as between scenes of tremendous (if exhausting) majesty.
I'm not entirely opposed to the mundane, precisely because high romance can get truly exhausting. But I prefer my romance (both definitions) and my mundane to overlap more.
So I prefer Through the Looking Glass to Wonderland. And I go elsewhere for the type of story I truly love.
