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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... turning nature against itself . Carlyle and Marx both used the concept of the grotesque to describe the perverse ... turn into a whale.30 These were identified quite specifically as flights of fancy , a fantastical jumbling and ...
... turning nature against itself . Carlyle and Marx both used the concept of the grotesque to describe the perverse ... turn into a whale.30 These were identified quite specifically as flights of fancy , a fantastical jumbling and ...
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... turn the image of Johnson fashioned by the Victorian critics Thomas Carlyle and Leslie Stephen . Third , the connection that Johnson draws between his Gargantuan identity and the size of the words that he utters - a connection ...
... turn the image of Johnson fashioned by the Victorian critics Thomas Carlyle and Leslie Stephen . Third , the connection that Johnson draws between his Gargantuan identity and the size of the words that he utters - a connection ...
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... turn of a narrative , or the course of an emotion.45 To improve the art of England , Ruskin argues that painters should aspire towards the older art ' of contemplation ' . Like Veronese they must ' perceive the reality of the act ' and ...
... turn of a narrative , or the course of an emotion.45 To improve the art of England , Ruskin argues that painters should aspire towards the older art ' of contemplation ' . Like Veronese they must ' perceive the reality of the act ' and ...
Contents
List of contributors xi | 1 |
biography Bahktin and grotesque | 21 |
Thomas Carlyles grotesque conceits 377 | 37 |
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