Langbeschreibung
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'.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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