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Neo-Victorian freakery : the cultural afterlife of the Victorian freak show / Helen Davies.

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"What is the enduring appeal of Victorian freak show performers in contemporary culture? What can the exhibition of people with extraordinary bodies in the nineteenth century tell us about our own attitudes towards physical difference? Does neo-Victorian fiction and film seek to challenge the e...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Main Author: Davies, Helen, 1983- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, [2015]
Subjects:
English literature > History and criticism.
Human body in literature.
Curiosities and wonders in literature.
Exhibitions > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Abnormalities, Human > History.
Freak shows > Influence.
Human body in motion pictures.
Curiosities and wonders in motion pictures.
Abnormalities, Human.
English literature.
Exhibitions.
Great Britain.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Mixing (re)Memory and Desire: Constructing Sarah Baartman
  • Separation Anxieties: Sex, Death, and Chang and Eng Bunker
  • Excessively Feminine? Anna Swan, Gendering Giantesses, and the Genre of the 'True Life Story' Pamphlet
  • Innocence, Experience, and Childhood Dramas: Charles Stratton and Lavinia Warren
  • The Strange Case of Joseph and Jack: Joseph Merrick and Spectacles of Deviance
  • Afterword: The Neo-Victorian Enfreakment of P.T. Barnum.

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