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: 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.
• Publisher Details: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire New York : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2015
• Copyright Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (vi, 239 pages)
• Subjects: 820.9/3561; Literature; 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; British literature; Fiction; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Kultur; Missbildung; Anomalie; Kuriosität; Rezeption; Schaustellergewerbe; Engelsk litteratur -- historia; Människokroppen i litteraturen; Människokroppen i filmen; Trivia i litteraturen; Trivia i filmen; Side show -- influenser; Utställningar -- historia; Abnormalities, Human; Curiosities and wonders in literature; Curiosities and wonders in motion pictures; English literature; Exhibitions; Human body in literature; Human body in motion pictures; Literary Criticism -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Fiction -- General; Literary Criticism -- General; Literature: history & criticism; Fiction & related items; Literary studies: from c 1900; Großbritannien; Great Britain; Electronic books; Criticism, interpretation, etc; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137402561; 1137402563
• Related ISBNs: 9781137402554; 1137402555
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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