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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 24
Page 16
... physical and totally spiritual , and where the grotesque is the ruination of matter , the infection of animation . Like many of his contem- poraries , Gilchrist is bemused by an art that is at once corporeal and ethereal , an art that ...
... physical and totally spiritual , and where the grotesque is the ruination of matter , the infection of animation . Like many of his contem- poraries , Gilchrist is bemused by an art that is at once corporeal and ethereal , an art that ...
Page 70
... physical gap between pure knowledge and total experience ; the living life of a perennial loss that marks the nature and the scandal of being . His power , force and energy cannot grasp the whole that he believes moves through his life ...
... physical gap between pure knowledge and total experience ; the living life of a perennial loss that marks the nature and the scandal of being . His power , force and energy cannot grasp the whole that he believes moves through his life ...
Page 184
... physical decrepitude : I hear around me the tramp of armed men and the hurry of others hastening to claim the right to live , and feel , I can't tell you what a desire to be among them somehow . If I had the singer's gift I would lend ...
... physical decrepitude : I hear around me the tramp of armed men and the hurry of others hastening to claim the right to live , and feel , I can't tell you what a desire to be among them somehow . If I had the singer's gift I would lend ...
Contents
List of contributors xi | 1 |
biography Bahktin and grotesque | 21 |
Thomas Carlyles grotesque conceits 377 | 37 |
Copyright | |
7 other sections not shown
Common terms and phrases
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