MARC Record from Ithaca College Library

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050 00 $aPS374.B64$bF34 2006
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100 1 $aFahy, Thomas Richard.
245 10 $aFreak shows and the modern American imagination :$bconstructing the damaged body from Willa Cather to Truman Capote /$cThomas Fahy.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bPalgrave Macmillan,$c2006.
300 $ax, 192 p. :$bill. ;$c22 cm.
440 0 $aAmerican literature readings in the 21st century
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [171]-183) and index.
505 0 $a'Helpless Meanness": Constructing the Black Body as Freakish Spectacle -- War-Injured Bodies: Fallen Soldiers in American Propaganda and the Works of John Dos Passos, Willa Cather, Ernest Hemingway, and William Faulkner -- Worn, Damaged Bodies in the Great Depression: FSA Photography and the Fiction of John Steinbeck, Tillie Olsen, and Nathanael West -- "Some Unheard-of Thing": Freaks, Families, and Coming of Age in Carson McCullers and Truman Capote.
650 0 $aAmerican fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aBody, Human, in literature.
650 0 $aAbnormalities, Human, in literature.
650 0 $aAbnormalities, Human, in art.
650 0 $aFreak shows$zUnited States.
994 $aC0$bXIM