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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Page 177
... idea of the beautiful , but the social life in which it is made is a product of pure conflict : ' Civilization admits of no stand- ing still ' , because ' the law of expansion is the law of vitality ... Civilization is like a flood , a ...
... idea of the beautiful , but the social life in which it is made is a product of pure conflict : ' Civilization admits of no stand- ing still ' , because ' the law of expansion is the law of vitality ... Civilization is like a flood , a ...
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... idea of the grotesque we must return to Chesterton , for whom the term is associated with ' size , vitality , vari- ety , energy and ugliness'.30 In the case of Watts , however , he draws attention to his representation of the back ...
... idea of the grotesque we must return to Chesterton , for whom the term is associated with ' size , vitality , vari- ety , energy and ugliness'.30 In the case of Watts , however , he draws attention to his representation of the back ...
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... idea here , it would be possible to examine paintings such as Mammon as a ' Wattsian ' variant of the ' political ' grotesque associated with Carlyle and Brown ; and it is interesting to note that the careers of these two very different ...
... idea here , it would be possible to examine paintings such as Mammon as a ' Wattsian ' variant of the ' political ' grotesque associated with Carlyle and Brown ; and it is interesting to note that the careers of these two very different ...
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