An edition of Victorian Freaks (2008)

Victorian freaks

the social context of freakery in Britain

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Victorian freaks
Marlene Tromp
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Ohio State University Press
Language
English
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328

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Abnormalities, human, Human body, social aspects, Great britain, history, 19th century, Great britain, social conditions, Human Abnormalities, History, Freak shows, Human body, Congenital Abnormalities, History, 19th Century, Social Conditions, Social history
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Victorian Freaks: The Social Context of Freakery in Britain
April 8, 2008, Ohio State University Press
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2008, Ohio State University Press
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Table of Contents

Even as you and I : freak shows and lay discourse on spectacular deformity / Heather McHold
Freaklore : the dissemination, fragmentation, and reinvention of the legend of Daniel Lambert, king of fat men / Joyce L. Huff
White wings and six-legged muttons : the freakish animal / Timothy Neil
"Poor Hoo Loo" : sentiment, stoicism, and the grotesque in British imperial medicine / Meegan Kennedy
Elephant talk : language and enfranchisement in the Merrick case / Christine C. Ferguson
The Missing Link and the Hairy Belle : Krao and the Victorian discourses of evolution, imperialism, and primitive sexuality / Nadja Durbach
Empire and the Indian freak : the "Miniature Man" from Cawnpore and the "Marvellous Indian Boy" on tour in England / Marlene Tromp
The Victorian mummy-fetish : H. Rider Haggard, Frank Aubrey, and the white mummy / Kelly Hurley
Our bear women, ourselves : affiliating with Julia Pastrana / Rebecca Stern
Queering the marriage plot : Wilkie Collins's The law and the lady / Martha Stoddard Holmes
Freaks that matter : the dolls' dressmaker, the doctor's assistant, and the limits of difference / Melissa Free
A collaborative aesthetic : Levinas's idea of responsibility and the photographs of Charles Eisenmann and the late nineteenth-century freak-performer / Christopher R. Smit.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Dewey Decimal Class
616.0430941
Library of Congress
QM691 .V53 2008

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Pagination
xiii, 328 p. :
Number of pages
328

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Open Library
OL18630747M
ISBN 10
0814210864
ISBN 13
9780814210864
LCCN
2007045057
Library Thing
8517124
Goodreads
2361829

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OL5825102W

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