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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... appears , is at the centre of the book . As Isobel Armstrong points out , it is both an instance of the Romantic aesthetic and a critique of its values.16 The chapter is Romantic by virtue of its refusal of narrative resolution in the ...
... appears , is at the centre of the book . As Isobel Armstrong points out , it is both an instance of the Romantic aesthetic and a critique of its values.16 The chapter is Romantic by virtue of its refusal of narrative resolution in the ...
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... appears as a carbuncular growth in which massed fragments of faces and bodies are forced together . Civilization , then , works as a sustained critical inversion of The First Cradle . The distortions and dislocations of infant bodies ...
... appears as a carbuncular growth in which massed fragments of faces and bodies are forced together . Civilization , then , works as a sustained critical inversion of The First Cradle . The distortions and dislocations of infant bodies ...
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... appears either ' pure ' , as in Wordsworth's poetry , ornamented , as in Tennyson , or distorted , as in Browning ... appear and old ones vanish , and the new species appear as mutations from the old . Evolutionary theory , therefore ...
... appears either ' pure ' , as in Wordsworth's poetry , ornamented , as in Tennyson , or distorted , as in Browning ... appear and old ones vanish , and the new species appear as mutations from the old . Evolutionary theory , therefore ...
Contents
List of contributors xi | 1 |
biography Bahktin and grotesque | 21 |
Thomas Carlyles grotesque conceits 377 | 37 |
Copyright | |
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