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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... desire to see Cromwell . Vision , as paradoxical fusion of the empirical and the metaphysical , becomes self - lacerating : the constant desire to see Cromwell as energy results in the perpetual mutation and metamorphosis of the Culture ...
... desire to see Cromwell . Vision , as paradoxical fusion of the empirical and the metaphysical , becomes self - lacerating : the constant desire to see Cromwell as energy results in the perpetual mutation and metamorphosis of the Culture ...
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... desire to ' lift the veil that shrouds the enigma of being'.62 However , this desire to picture art as the escape from the residual grotesqueness of matter into the transcendent purity of form - as - being is undermined by the very ...
... desire to ' lift the veil that shrouds the enigma of being'.62 However , this desire to picture art as the escape from the residual grotesqueness of matter into the transcendent purity of form - as - being is undermined by the very ...
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... desire to articulate mind through matter , a marked feature of his portraits , is explored in Barlow , P. , ' Facing the Past and Present : The National Portrait Gallery and the Search for " Authentic " Portraiture ' , in Woodall , J ...
... desire to articulate mind through matter , a marked feature of his portraits , is explored in Barlow , P. , ' Facing the Past and Present : The National Portrait Gallery and the Search for " Authentic " Portraiture ' , in Woodall , J ...
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