Victorian culture and the idea of the grotesque / edited by Colin Trodd, Paul Barlow, and David Amig...
Victorian culture and the idea of the grotesque / edited by Colin Trodd, Paul Barlow, and David Amig...
Victorian culture and the idea of the grotesque / edited by Colin Trodd, Paul Barlow, and David Amigoni.
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Publisher
Brookfield, Vt. : Ashgate, c1999.
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N941.081/42
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Language
English
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Physical content
xiv, 212 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents
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 e...
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Publisher
Brookfield, Vt. : Ashgate, c1999.
Place of Publication
Vermont
Date Published
c1999.
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Summary
"These specially commissioned essays provide an original analysis 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 specula...
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Victorian culture and the idea of the grotesque / edited by Colin Trodd, Paul Barlow, and David Amigoni.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-206) and index.
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c1999.
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N941.081/42
Record Identifier
74VvEq72m3BO
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VvEq72m3BO
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ISBN
1859283802 (hb : alk. paper)
9781859283806 (hb : acid-free paper)
1859283802 (hb : acid-free paper)
9781859283806 (hb : alk. paper)
DDC
941.081
MMS ID
991011555129702626
