Victorian Culture and the Idea of the Grotesque
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781859283806 (1859283802)
Publish date: June 1st 1999
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Pages no: 250
Edition language: English
Competing definitions of the grotesque in Victorian culture – its oscillation between the quotidian and the numinous, its representation as growth, vitality and power, its association with the decay of form, its articulation as the buried body of historical meaning, its correspondence with biologica...