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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... energy and exegetical force . Carlyle demands from Cromwell an expressivity that , transcending the power of ... energy renders Carlyle unsure of the nature of his own desire to see Cromwell . Vision , as paradoxical fusion of the ...
... energy and exegetical force . Carlyle demands from Cromwell an expressivity that , transcending the power of ... energy renders Carlyle unsure of the nature of his own desire to see Cromwell . Vision , as paradoxical fusion of the ...
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... energy cannot grasp the whole that he believes moves through his life , forming his destiny . To paraphrase Carlyle : Cromwell searches for a space in which he can finally flee from his own shadow ; his is a form of thinking that thinks ...
... energy cannot grasp the whole that he believes moves through his life , forming his destiny . To paraphrase Carlyle : Cromwell searches for a space in which he can finally flee from his own shadow ; his is a form of thinking that thinks ...
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... energy of the entangled bank and offers some consolation for the loss of a transcendent view of nature , for Dadd the grotesque is brought about by the terrible costs of trying to contain the terror , the horror vacui , caused by the ...
... energy of the entangled bank and offers some consolation for the loss of a transcendent view of nature , for Dadd the grotesque is brought about by the terrible costs of trying to contain the terror , the horror vacui , caused by the ...
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