LEADER 03843nam 2200673Ia 450 001 9910454828703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-35997-5 010 $a9786612359972 010 $a0-520-94489-5 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520944893 035 $a(CKB)1000000000811831 035 $a(EBL)470936 035 $a(OCoLC)503092483 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000310060 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11282545 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000310060 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10287253 035 $a(PQKB)11534141 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000056151 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC470936 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse30407 035 $a(DE-B1597)518839 035 $a(OCoLC)1013183343 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520944893 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL470936 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10343493 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL235997 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000811831 100 $a20090306d2009 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe spectacle of deformity$b[electronic resource] $efreak shows and modern British culture /$fNadja Durbach 210 $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$d2009 215 $a1 online resource (289 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-520-25768-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tIllustrations -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction / Exhibiting Freaks -- $t1 / Monstrosity, Masculinity, and Medicine: Reexamining "the Elephant Man" -- $t2 / Two Bodies, Two Selves, Two Sexes: Conjoined Twins and "the Double-Bodied Hindoo Boy" -- $t3 / The Missing Link and the Hairy Belle: Evolution, Imperialism, and "Primitive" Sexuality -- $t4 / Aztecs and Earthmen: Declining Civilizations and Dying Races -- $t5 / "When the Cannibal King Began to Talk": Performing Race, Class, and Ethnicity -- $tConclusion / The Decline of the Freak Show -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aIn 1847, during the great age of the freak show, the British periodical Punch bemoaned the public's "prevailing taste for deformity." This vividly detailed work argues that far from being purely exploitative, displays of anomalous bodies served a deeper social purpose as they generated popular and scientific debates over the meanings attached to bodily difference. Nadja Durbach examines freaks both well-known and obscure including the Elephant Man; "Lalloo, the Double-Bodied Hindoo Boy," a set of conjoined twins advertised as half male, half female; Krao, a seven-year-old hairy Laotian girl who was marketed as Darwin's "missing link"; the "Last of the Mysterious Aztecs" and African "Cannibal Kings," who were often merely Irishmen in blackface. Upending our tendency to read late twentieth-century conceptions of disability onto the bodies of freak show performers, Durbach shows that these spectacles helped to articulate the cultural meanings invested in otherness--and thus clarified what it meant to be British-at a key moment in the making of modern and imperial ideologies and identities. 606 $aAbnormalities, Human$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aFreak shows$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aHuman body$xSocial aspects$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAbnormalities, Human$xHistory 615 0$aFreak shows$xHistory 615 0$aHuman body$xSocial aspects$xHistory 676 $a791.35094109034 700 $aDurbach$b Nadja$f1971-$01047738 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910454828703321 996 $aThe spectacle of deformity$92475541 997 $aUNINA