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Routledge Revivals: Victorian Culture and the Idea of the Grotesque (1999) book cover

1st Edition

Routledge Revivals: Victorian Culture and the Idea of the Grotesque (1999)

Edited By Colin Trodd, Paul Barlow, David Amigoni Copyright 1999
228 Pages
by Routledge

228 Pages
by Routledge

228 Pages
by Routledge
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Originally published in 1999, Victorian Culture and the Idea of the Grotesque is the first fully interdisciplinary study of the subject and examines a wide range of sources and materials to provide new readings between ‘style’ and ‘concept’. The book provides an original analysis of key articulations of the Grotesque in the literary culture of Ruskin, Browning and Dickens, where represents the... Read more

Acknowledgements

List of Contributors

List of Figures

Introduction: Uncovering the Grotesque in Victorian Culture

1. ‘Borrowing Gargantua’s Mouth: Biography, Bahktin and Grotesque Discourse – James Boswell, Thomas Carlyle and Leslie Stephen on Samuel Johnson, David Amigoni

2. Thomas Carlyle’s Grotesque Conceits, Paul Barlow

3. Culture and Energy: Ford Maddox Brown, Thomas Carlyle and Cromwellian Grotesque, Colin Trodd

4. ‘Griffinism, Grace and All’: The Riddle of the Grotesque in John Ruskin’s Modern Painters, Lucy Hartley

5. Grotesque Obscenities: Thomas Woolner’s Civilization and its Discontents, Paul Barlow

6. ‘Entangled Banks’: Robert Browning, Richard Dadd and the Darwinian Grotesque, Nicola Bown

7. Monsters and Monstrosities: Grotesque Taste and Victorian Design, Shelagh Wilson

8. Turning Back the Grotsque: G.F. Watts, the Matter of Painting and the Oblivion of Art, Colin Trodd

Bibliography

Index

Biography

Colin Trodd, Paul Barlow, David Amigoni,

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