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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... character is portrayed with ' a mingled verisimilitude ' that he cannot detect the difference between the grotesque and his own ' grotesqueness'.36 He is simply unaware that he is infected by his own art ; his representations of the ...
... character is portrayed with ' a mingled verisimilitude ' that he cannot detect the difference between the grotesque and his own ' grotesqueness'.36 He is simply unaware that he is infected by his own art ; his representations of the ...
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... character ' and his physiognomy : ' those bag- cheeks , hanging like half - filled wine - skins ... The under part of Boswell's face is of a low , almost brutish character.'34 Carlyle's biographical sketches of Boswell and Johnson need ...
... character ' and his physiognomy : ' those bag- cheeks , hanging like half - filled wine - skins ... The under part of Boswell's face is of a low , almost brutish character.'34 Carlyle's biographical sketches of Boswell and Johnson need ...
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... character of a prophetic man ; a man with his whole soul seeing , and struggling to see.51 This vision of Cromwell is one that Hugo would describe as ' fleshly ' - where the will to incarnate the form of the spiritual in the material ...
... character of a prophetic man ; a man with his whole soul seeing , and struggling to see.51 This vision of Cromwell is one that Hugo would describe as ' fleshly ' - where the will to incarnate the form of the spiritual in the material ...
Contents
List of contributors xi | 1 |
biography Bahktin and grotesque | 21 |
Thomas Carlyles grotesque conceits 377 | 37 |
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