Transformations of the Aesthetic of Ugliness in 19th Century Literature

Work through the analysis of selected literary works of the 19th century attempts to answer the question whether during romanticism and decadence has somehow substantially changed the use and perception of the theme of ugliness, whether it is physical ugliness or ugliness environment ("nature" against the city, etc.). The starting point will be the aesthetics of romanticism with its use of an abomination and grotesqueness, attention will be paid to using of different kinds of ugliness in the literature of naturalism and, last but not least also the outcome of these '-isms' in literature of fin de si?cle. Work tries to capture the transformations of the relationships between ugliness and evil, ugliness and morbidity or ugliness and (un)naturalness