Victorian culture and the idea of the grotesque

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Victorian culture and the idea of the grotesque

edited by Colin Trodd, Paul Barlow, and David Amigoni

Ashgate, 1999

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-206) and index

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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". These essays provide original readings of key articulations of the Grotesque: the literary culture of Ruskin, Browning and Dickens, where it is a sign of the eruptions, intensities, confusions and disturbed vitality of modern cultural experience; the scientific revolution associated with Darwin, where it generates speculation about biological forces, bodily energies, and mutations in nature; and the social and historical literature of Carlyle, where it hovers on the edge of visibility, at once a transgression of the nature of industrial society and its purest manifestation.

目次

  • Introduction: the Grotesque. "Borrowing gargantua's mouth - biography, Bahktin and Grotesque discourse" - James Boswell, Thomas Carlyle and Leslie Stephen on Samuel Johnson, David Amigoni
  • Thomas Carlyle's Grotesque conceits, Paul Barlow
  • culture and energy - Ford Madox Brown, Thomas Carlyle and the Cromwellian Grotesque, Colin Trodd
  • "Griffinism, grace and all" - the riddle of the Grotesque in John Ruskin's Modern Painters, Lucy Hartley
  • Grotesque obscenities - Thomas Woolner's Civilisation and its discontents, Paul Barlow
  • "entangled banks" - Robert Browning, Richard Dadd, and the Darwinian Grotesque, Nicola Bown
  • monsters and monstrosities - Grotesque taste and Victorian design, Shelagh Wilson
  • turning back the Grotesque - G F Watts, the matter of painting and the oblivion of art, Colin Trodd.

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