LEADER 03748nam 22005895 450 001 9910918597103321 005 20241224115220.0 010 $a9783031760921 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-76092-1 035 $a(CKB)37078232300041 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31857854 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31857854 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-76092-1 035 $a(OCoLC)1482097610 035 $a(EXLCZ)9937078232300041 100 $a20241224d2024 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aNeo-Victorian Cultural Collections of Disability $eInterdisciplinary Interventions /$fby Louise Logan-Smith 205 $a1st ed. 2024. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer Nature Switzerland :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2024. 215 $a1 online resource (212 pages) 225 1 $aLiterary Disability Studies,$x2947-7417 311 08$a9783031760914 327 $aChapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Visual Art, Disability and Museum Culture in Neo-Victorianism -- Chapter 3: Alternative Archives: Approaching Museum Collections through Neo-Victorian Fiction -- Chapter 4: Behind the Vitrine Glass': Revisiting Approaches to the Textual and Material Display of Sarah Baartman and Julia Pastrana -- Chapter 5: "Monster Men" and the Ethics of Display: The Afterlife of Charles Byrne 'The Irish Giant' -- Chapter 6: The Case of Joseph Merrick: Fictionalising Disability in the Museum Space -- Chapter 7: 'In Full Voice': Narrating the Giant Female Body in Heritage Practices -- Chapter 8: Afterword. 330 $aThis book offers new readings and interpretations of the non-normative narratives of 'freak show' performers in the Victorian period as they have been reimagined by contemporary fictions, museum exhibitions and other aspects of the heritage experience. The growth of scholarly interest in institutional histories has been mapped by a surge of neo-Victorian fiction about historical performers with disabilities, supported by scholarship in response to these representations. This study offers the first extensive analysis of the continued display of the bodies and artefacts of historical figures linked to the freak show, and the significant theoretical connections between these displays and broader cultural and fictional representations. It argues that museum displays, archives and fictional adaptations intersect through a much more complex and intriguing dialogue than has previously been identified, shedding light on the way in which historical disability functions in the twenty-first century. Louise Logan-Smith is Associate Lecturer in English Studies and Tutor of Creative Writing at Teesside University, UK, where she teaches modules on literary culture in the twenty-first century, creative writing, and Victorian and Neo-Victorian literature. 410 0$aLiterary Disability Studies,$x2947-7417 606 $aComparative literature 606 $aLiterature, Modern$y20th century 606 $aLiterature, Modern$y21st century 606 $aCultural property 606 $aComparative Literature 606 $aContemporary Literature 606 $aCultural Heritage 615 0$aComparative literature. 615 0$aLiterature, Modern 615 0$aLiterature, Modern 615 0$aCultural property. 615 14$aComparative Literature. 615 24$aContemporary Literature. 615 24$aCultural Heritage. 676 $a809.933527 700 $aLogan-Smith$b Louise$01780971 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 912 $a9910918597103321 996 $aNeo-Victorian Cultural Collections of Disability$94305546 997 $aUNINA