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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... described as ' the Romantic grotesque ' : ' in folk grotesque , madness is a gay parody of official reason ... In Romantic grotesque ... madness acquires a sombre , tragic aspect of individual isola- tion . '24 Boswell represents ...
... described as ' the Romantic grotesque ' : ' in folk grotesque , madness is a gay parody of official reason ... In Romantic grotesque ... madness acquires a sombre , tragic aspect of individual isola- tion . '24 Boswell represents ...
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... described is an active process of re - use and transformation . The verbs and participles , ' tickled and toused and browsed ' , ' frisking and twisting and coupling ' , draw attention to the natural processes at work , and to their ...
... described is an active process of re - use and transformation . The verbs and participles , ' tickled and toused and browsed ' , ' frisking and twisting and coupling ' , draw attention to the natural processes at work , and to their ...
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... described by Monkhouse as ' Sam Slick and Solomon rolled into one ' ( a reference that combines Biblical authority with a fictional crafts- man - satirist ) . He also produced distorted grotesque ' pre - adamite ' and ' ante- diluvian ...
... described by Monkhouse as ' Sam Slick and Solomon rolled into one ' ( a reference that combines Biblical authority with a fictional crafts- man - satirist ) . He also produced distorted grotesque ' pre - adamite ' and ' ante- diluvian ...
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