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

ISBN-13: 9781138486898 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 228 str.

Colin Trodd; Paul Barlow; David Amigoni

Opis

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’.

Spis treści

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  2. Thomas Carlyle’s Grotesque Conceits  3. Culture and Energy: Ford Maddox Brown, Thomas Carlyle and Cromwellian Grotesque  4. ‘Griffinism, Grace and All’: The Riddle of the Grotesque in John Ruskin’s Modern Painters  5. Grotesque Obscenities: Thomas Woolner’s Civilization and its Discontents  6. ‘Entangled Banks’: Robert Browning, Richard Dadd and the Darwinian Grotesque  7. Monsters and Monstrosities: Grotesque Taste and Victorian Design  8. Turning Back the Grotsque: G.F. Watts, the Matter of Painting and the Oblivion of Art  Bibliography  Index

O autorze

Colin Trodd, Paul Barlow, David Amigoni,