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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... contrast to the ludicrous image of Johnson's body on a horse : ' he had no command or direction of his horse , but ... contrasts are inflected further by Johnson's ' melancholic ' interiority which ' gave a gloomy cast to his whole ...
... contrast to the ludicrous image of Johnson's body on a horse : ' he had no command or direction of his horse , but ... contrasts are inflected further by Johnson's ' melancholic ' interiority which ' gave a gloomy cast to his whole ...
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... contrast of the Dandiacal and Poor Slave sects discussed in Sartor Resartus . Carlyle's expression recalls his own contrast of devotion with irony in Latter Day Pamphlets , where he claims that the nation is ' smirking , grimacing ...
... contrast of the Dandiacal and Poor Slave sects discussed in Sartor Resartus . Carlyle's expression recalls his own contrast of devotion with irony in Latter Day Pamphlets , where he claims that the nation is ' smirking , grimacing ...
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... contrast between our primitive habits and the ideal aims of our modern life as shown in the lady's attempt to discipline the child's affections , by making him say his prayers before permitting his caresses . A woman has been chosen in ...
... contrast between our primitive habits and the ideal aims of our modern life as shown in the lady's attempt to discipline the child's affections , by making him say his prayers before permitting his caresses . A woman has been chosen in ...
Contents
List of contributors xi | 1 |
biography Bahktin and grotesque | 21 |
Thomas Carlyles grotesque conceits 377 | 37 |
Copyright | |
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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