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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... style was strong in the 1840s and was associated with the popularity of supernat- ural and folk literature , influences which are clearly evident in publications such as S.C. Hall's Book of British Ballads ( 1842 ) , to which Richard ...
... style was strong in the 1840s and was associated with the popularity of supernat- ural and folk literature , influences which are clearly evident in publications such as S.C. Hall's Book of British Ballads ( 1842 ) , to which Richard ...
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... style ( Pope ) is found in read- ings of modern painting.55 In the early accounts of Pre - Raphaelitism we find commentators criticizing its elaborative surfaces as examples of ornamental waste or obsessional repetition . Instead of ...
... style ( Pope ) is found in read- ings of modern painting.55 In the early accounts of Pre - Raphaelitism we find commentators criticizing its elaborative surfaces as examples of ornamental waste or obsessional repetition . Instead of ...
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... style of Delaroche and the intimate style of Stothard , does not know how to treat or place Cromwell.57 Cromwell Viewing the Body of Charles I ( Figure 3.3 ) provides us with a vision of the impossibility of reconciling Cromwell with ...
... style of Delaroche and the intimate style of Stothard , does not know how to treat or place Cromwell.57 Cromwell Viewing the Body of Charles I ( Figure 3.3 ) provides us with a vision of the impossibility of reconciling Cromwell with ...
Contents
List of contributors xi | 1 |
biography Bahktin and grotesque | 21 |
Thomas Carlyles grotesque conceits 377 | 37 |
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