Victorian Culture and the Idea of the GrotesqueColin Trodd, Paul Barlow, David Amigoni Monstrous, absurd, humorous, demotic and contradictory: the Grotesque is a protean force working across different areas of Victorian life. This text examines a wide range of sources and materials in order to provide new readings of an important force that oscillates between style and concept. |
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... Brown's attitude to the grotesque is somewhat different . Like Ruskin , for whom Venice is disfigured by ' the pestilence that came and breathed upon her beauty ' , 30 Brown's initial approach to the grotesque is through what he sees as ...
... Brown's attitude to the grotesque is somewhat different . Like Ruskin , for whom Venice is disfigured by ' the pestilence that came and breathed upon her beauty ' , 30 Brown's initial approach to the grotesque is through what he sees as ...
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... Brown's paint- ing , it is absurdly inconsequential . Cattermole wants to look back to Bonington's modification of ... Brown recognize a primal energy that strives to but never does enact the fusion of the corporeal and the numinous ...
... Brown's paint- ing , it is absurdly inconsequential . Cattermole wants to look back to Bonington's modification of ... Brown recognize a primal energy that strives to but never does enact the fusion of the corporeal and the numinous ...
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... Brown with the idea of the grotesque is made by at least four late Victorian and Edwardian commentators : Holman ... Brown's ' sincerity ' generates endless ' perversities ' ; and Helen M. Madox Rossetti claims that the characteristics ...
... Brown with the idea of the grotesque is made by at least four late Victorian and Edwardian commentators : Holman ... Brown's ' sincerity ' generates endless ' perversities ' ; and Helen M. Madox Rossetti claims that the characteristics ...
Contents
List of contributors xi | 1 |
biography Bahktin and grotesque | 21 |
Thomas Carlyles grotesque conceits 377 | 37 |
Copyright | |
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