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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... complex and varied ways with the claims of Ruskin regarding the function of the pre - industrial craftsman and , in partic- ular , with the identities of the labourer and of undeveloped or incomplete modes of consciousness . The ...
... complex and varied ways with the claims of Ruskin regarding the function of the pre - industrial craftsman and , in partic- ular , with the identities of the labourer and of undeveloped or incomplete modes of consciousness . The ...
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... complex ques- tions of identification for Stephen which , from his allusion to Comte's theory of the ' subjective stage of existence ' , he takes to be led by bodily sensations before rational intellectual engagement.56 Against his ...
... complex ques- tions of identification for Stephen which , from his allusion to Comte's theory of the ' subjective stage of existence ' , he takes to be led by bodily sensations before rational intellectual engagement.56 Against his ...
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... complex patterns of action irreducible to intelligible chains of cause and effect . The totality of human behaviour forms an unknowably dense ' chaos of being ' from which observ- able historical events emerge into visibility . History ...
... complex patterns of action irreducible to intelligible chains of cause and effect . The totality of human behaviour forms an unknowably dense ' chaos of being ' from which observ- able historical events emerge into visibility . History ...
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