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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... century and the discovery of the fantastic hybrid images adorning the reopened ancient Roman Titus Baths . By the fifteenth century these ancient structures were well below street level , and so came to be associated with underground ...
... century and the discovery of the fantastic hybrid images adorning the reopened ancient Roman Titus Baths . By the fifteenth century these ancient structures were well below street level , and so came to be associated with underground ...
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... century , but with many of its original discriminations intact . Sir Henry Wotton's use of the term in 1624 ( The Elements of Architecture ) finds the grotesque acceptable in painting but not in architecture . 14 Here , again , early ...
... century , but with many of its original discriminations intact . Sir Henry Wotton's use of the term in 1624 ( The Elements of Architecture ) finds the grotesque acceptable in painting but not in architecture . 14 Here , again , early ...
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... century , proto - Romantic precursor . Moreover , such a focus suggests that Bakhtin's somewhat dismissive attitude to the meanings of the grotesque in the nineteenth century can be challenged from the perspective of a more nuanced ...
... century , proto - Romantic precursor . Moreover , such a focus suggests that Bakhtin's somewhat dismissive attitude to the meanings of the grotesque in the nineteenth century can be challenged from the perspective of a more nuanced ...
Contents
List of contributors xi | 1 |
biography Bahktin and grotesque | 21 |
Thomas Carlyles grotesque conceits 377 | 37 |
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