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Author Davies, Helen, 1983- author

Title Neo-Victorian freakery : the cultural afterlife of the Victorian freak show / Helen Davies
Published Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, [2015]
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Description 1 online resource (vi, 239 pages)
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
Summary "What is the enduring appeal of Victorian freak show performers in contemporary culture? What can the exhibition of people with extraordinary bodies in the nineteenth century tell us about our own attitudes towards physical difference? Does neo-Victorian fiction and film seek to challenge the exploitation of freak show performers, or does it perpetuate prurient horror and fascination? Neo-Victorian Freakery: The Cultural Afterlife of the Victorian Freak Show offers a compelling exploration of the lives of people who were billed as 'freaks' in the nineteenth century, and explores the ways in which neo-Victorian fiction, film, and television revisits their stories. Helen Davies locates the neo-Victorian freak show as a crucial forum for debating the politics of disability, gender, sexuality and race within the genre more broadly"--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject 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.
Fiction & related items.
Literary studies: from c 1900.
Literature: history & criticism.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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.
Kultur
Missbildung
Anomalie Medizin
Kuriosität
Rezeption
Schaustellergewerbe
Engelsk litteratur -- historia.
Människokroppen i litteraturen.
Människokroppen i filmen.
Trivia i litteraturen.
Trivia i filmen.
Side show -- influenser.
Utställningar -- historia.
Great Britain.
Großbritannien
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Form Electronic book
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