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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... writing as a form of disease.3 The paradox was not lost on many of Carlyle's critics . From the publication of his first major work , Sartor Resartus , commentators identi- fied a form of self - destruction operating in his texts , a ...
... writing as a form of disease.3 The paradox was not lost on many of Carlyle's critics . From the publication of his first major work , Sartor Resartus , commentators identi- fied a form of self - destruction operating in his texts , a ...
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... writing are full of expressions which emphasize the relationship between writing and excrement . When joking about finding a publisher for Sartor Resartus , Carlyle spoke of his problems getting his ' dreck ' out . See Colin Trodd's ...
... writing are full of expressions which emphasize the relationship between writing and excrement . When joking about finding a publisher for Sartor Resartus , Carlyle spoke of his problems getting his ' dreck ' out . See Colin Trodd's ...
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... writing him makes presence alienating . The sense of being subsumed by the uncontrollable forces buried by history determines the way in which Carlyle writes about the experience of being in his narrative . Writing to Emerson in 1844 he ...
... writing him makes presence alienating . The sense of being subsumed by the uncontrollable forces buried by history determines the way in which Carlyle writes about the experience of being in his narrative . Writing to Emerson in 1844 he ...
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