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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... position as an evaluative , or even descriptive , term . As an aesthetic of the irreconcilable , the grotesque here is construed not simply as an aesthetic position or method adopted by writers and artists , but as a means to realize ...
... position as an evaluative , or even descriptive , term . As an aesthetic of the irreconcilable , the grotesque here is construed not simply as an aesthetic position or method adopted by writers and artists , but as a means to realize ...
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... position as a grotesque philosopher , that I wish to consider here . 8 Stephen's liberal - democratic distaste for Carlyle has characterized twentieth- century responses to Carlyle , who is construed as a disturbed presence in ...
... position as a grotesque philosopher , that I wish to consider here . 8 Stephen's liberal - democratic distaste for Carlyle has characterized twentieth- century responses to Carlyle , who is construed as a disturbed presence in ...
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... position of Watts , which ' deals always with a light shining on things ' , is explained as a stoical accep- tance of the natural realm ; the ' Christian ' position of the Pre - Raphaelites , which shows light shining through things ...
... position of Watts , which ' deals always with a light shining on things ' , is explained as a stoical accep- tance of the natural realm ; the ' Christian ' position of the Pre - Raphaelites , which shows light shining through things ...
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