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

Colin Trodd, Paul Barlow, David Amigoni,

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