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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... finds an ' explanation of the apparent contradiction ' in the fact that Hume ' appealed to a few thinkers , who might be considered as the brain of the social organism'.47 Notably , Stephen finds the intellectual explana- tion for this ...
... finds an ' explanation of the apparent contradiction ' in the fact that Hume ' appealed to a few thinkers , who might be considered as the brain of the social organism'.47 Notably , Stephen finds the intellectual explana- tion for this ...
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... finds this phrase ' somewhere ' in Hegel . Amid the coher- ent , all - encompassing theorization of history that is Hegel , this statement is made . It has a role , a logic , wherever it is , but this logic has slipped Marx's mind . It ...
... finds this phrase ' somewhere ' in Hegel . Amid the coher- ent , all - encompassing theorization of history that is Hegel , this statement is made . It has a role , a logic , wherever it is , but this logic has slipped Marx's mind . It ...
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... finds in Cromwell an irresistible , enigmatic power.33 ' Cromwell's virile personality ' , Hueffer informs us in his biography of his grandfather , ' exercised a strong influence ' on the painter's mind.34 Indeed , his favourite son ...
... finds in Cromwell an irresistible , enigmatic power.33 ' Cromwell's virile personality ' , Hueffer informs us in his biography of his grandfather , ' exercised a strong influence ' on the painter's mind.34 Indeed , his favourite son ...
Contents
List of contributors xi | 1 |
biography Bahktin and grotesque | 21 |
Thomas Carlyles grotesque conceits 377 | 37 |
Copyright | |
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