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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... Renaissance forms of the grotesque did however provide another important source for Victorian articu- lations of the category . As Naomi Miller points out in her book Heavenly Caves , by the sixteenth century the Classical grotesque had ...
... Renaissance forms of the grotesque did however provide another important source for Victorian articu- lations of the category . As Naomi Miller points out in her book Heavenly Caves , by the sixteenth century the Classical grotesque had ...
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... Renaissance grotto provided a means to name the Gothic itself as grotesque , to return the term to a point prior to the discovery of the Classical decorations valued by Raphael and Vasari . Victorian critics of architecture and design ...
... Renaissance grotto provided a means to name the Gothic itself as grotesque , to return the term to a point prior to the discovery of the Classical decorations valued by Raphael and Vasari . Victorian critics of architecture and design ...
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... Renaissance times and are to be found in the architectural development of St Mark's from its Byzantine ' foundations ' , through its Gothic ' sea - stories ' , to its Renaissance ' fall'.16 Indeed , as Figure 4.1 illustrates , Ruskin's ...
... Renaissance times and are to be found in the architectural development of St Mark's from its Byzantine ' foundations ' , through its Gothic ' sea - stories ' , to its Renaissance ' fall'.16 Indeed , as Figure 4.1 illustrates , Ruskin's ...
Contents
List of contributors xi | 1 |
biography Bahktin and grotesque | 21 |
Thomas Carlyles grotesque conceits 377 | 37 |
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