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Titolo: | Victorian Freaks : The Social Context of Freaking in Britain / / edited by Marlene Tromp |
Pubblicazione: | Columbus : , : Ohio State University Press, , 2008 |
©2008 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xiii, 328 p.) : ill. ; |
Disciplina: | 616.0430941 |
Soggetto topico: | Social Conditions - history - Great Britain |
History, 19th Century - Great Britain | |
Congenital Abnormalities - history - Great Britain | |
Human body - Social aspects - Great Britain - History - 19th century | |
Freak shows - Great Britain - History - 19th century | |
Abnormalities, Human - Great Britain - History - 19th century | |
Altri autori: | TrompMarlene <1966-> |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Even 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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Victorian Freaks |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910524669203321 |
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