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

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