Neo-Victorian freakery : the cultural afterlife of the Victorian freak show /: the cultural afterlife of the Victorian freak show. ([2015])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Helen Davies.
• Authors: Davies, Helen, 1983-
• Contents: Introduction: Distorted images and re-membered bodies: Constructing Neo-Victorian Freakery; 1. Mixing (re)memory and desire: Constructing Sarah Baartman; 2. Separation Anxieties: Sex, Death, and Chang and Eng Bunker; 3. Excessively feminine? Anna Swan, gendering giantesses, and the genre of the 'true life story' pamphlet; 4. Innocence, experience, and childhood dramas: Charles Stratton and Lavinia Warren; 5. The Strange Case of Joseph and Jack: Joseph Merrick and spectacles of deviance; Notes; Bibliography; Index
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 820.93561; 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; Literature & literary studies; Literature: history & criticism
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137402578; 1137402571
• Related ISBNs: 9781137402554
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.