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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... importance to Ruskin and Carlyle . The late Renaissance forms of the grotesque did however provide another important source for Victorian articu- lations of the category . As Naomi Miller points out in her book Heavenly Caves , by the ...
... importance to Ruskin and Carlyle . The late Renaissance forms of the grotesque did however provide another important source for Victorian articu- lations of the category . As Naomi Miller points out in her book Heavenly Caves , by the ...
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... important sources for the grotesque styles later to be adopted by Carlyle and Browning.15 - Barasch traces two crucial developments in the seventeenth century which came to have important ramifications for the eighteenth and nineteenth ...
... important sources for the grotesque styles later to be adopted by Carlyle and Browning.15 - Barasch traces two crucial developments in the seventeenth century which came to have important ramifications for the eighteenth and nineteenth ...
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... importance and general currency of physiog- nomy we need to consider the important work of Ludmilla Jordanova , who defines physiognomy as ' a broadly environmentalist view of health and disease , an interest in language , a belief in ...
... importance and general currency of physiog- nomy we need to consider the important work of Ludmilla Jordanova , who defines physiognomy as ' a broadly environmentalist view of health and disease , an interest in language , a belief in ...
Contents
List of contributors xi | 1 |
biography Bahktin and grotesque | 21 |
Thomas Carlyles grotesque conceits 377 | 37 |
Copyright | |
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