MARC Record from Library of Congress

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001 2007045057
003 DLC
005 20080424085409.0
008 071102s2008 ohua b s001 0 eng
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020 $a9780814210864 (cloth : alk. paper)
020 $a0814210864 (cloth : alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn180982652
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050 00 $aQM691$b.V53 2008
060 10 $aWZ 308$bV645 2008
082 00 $a616.0430941$222
245 00 $aVictorian freaks :$bthe social context of freakery in Britain /$cedited by Marlene Tromp.
260 $aColumbus :$bOhio State University Press,$cc2008.
300 $axiii, 328 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aEven 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.
650 0 $aAbnormalities, Human$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aFreak shows$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aBody, Human$xSocial aspects$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century.
650 12 $aCongenital Abnormalities$xhistory$zGreat Britain.
650 22 $aHistory, 19th Century$zGreat Britain.
650 22 $aSocial Conditions$xhistory$zGreat Britain.
700 1 $aTromp, Marlene,$d1966-