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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... body . The Classical body finds its image in the Renaissance statue : originating in Greek and Roman aesthetic models , this is a circumscribed , closed and individualized figure . The grotesque - realist body , by contrast , cannot be ...
... body . The Classical body finds its image in the Renaissance statue : originating in Greek and Roman aesthetic models , this is a circumscribed , closed and individualized figure . The grotesque - realist body , by contrast , cannot be ...
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... body and retains only its excrescences ( sprouts and buds ) and orifices , only that which leads beyond the body's limited space or into the body's depths . Mountains and abysses , such is the relief of the grotesque body ; or speaking ...
... body and retains only its excrescences ( sprouts and buds ) and orifices , only that which leads beyond the body's limited space or into the body's depths . Mountains and abysses , such is the relief of the grotesque body ; or speaking ...
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... body are avoided by a process of painting that insists on the integration of things . In order to preserve the true character of the human form the body becomes a network of landscape motifs : clouds , grass , ground , flowers , birds ...
... body are avoided by a process of painting that insists on the integration of things . In order to preserve the true character of the human form the body becomes a network of landscape motifs : clouds , grass , ground , flowers , birds ...
Contents
List of contributors xi | 1 |
biography Bahktin and grotesque | 21 |
Thomas Carlyles grotesque conceits 377 | 37 |
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aberrant aesthetic alien animal articulation artist attempt Bagehot Barasch beauty becomes bodily body Boswell Boswell's Brown Caliban Caliban Upon Setebos caricature Carlyle Carlyle's Cattermole century Chesterton Civilization claims Classical complex conception conflation critical Cromwell Cromwell's Dadd Dadd's Darwin decorative depicts Dickens Dickens's discourse Dresser embody energy entangled bank Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke fantastic figures force Ford Madox Ford Madox Brown French Revolution G. F. Watts Gothic grotesque grotesque body grotto Hegel human Ibid idea ideal identified identity illustration imagery imagination John Ruskin language London majolica Marx material modern narrative natural world objects Origin painting Palissy poem Poetry Pre-Raphaelite primal reading Renaissance representation Richard Dadd Romantic Ruskin Sartor Sartor Resartus sculpture sense social species Stephen Strand magazine structure struggle sublime Teufelsdröckh theory Thomas Carlyle Thomas Woolner tion Trodd Victorian culture violence vision visual Watts Gallery Watts's Woolner Wright writing