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The spectacle of deformity [[electronic resource] ] : freak shows and modern British culture / / Nadja Durbach
| The spectacle of deformity [[electronic resource] ] : freak shows and modern British culture / / Nadja Durbach |
| Autore | Durbach Nadja <1971-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2009 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (289 p.) |
| Disciplina | 791.35094109034 |
| Soggetto topico |
Abnormalities, Human - Great Britain - History - 19th century
Freak shows - Great Britain - History - 19th century Human body - Social aspects - Great Britain - History - 19th century |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-282-35997-5
9786612359972 0-520-94489-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Exhibiting Freaks -- 1 / Monstrosity, Masculinity, and Medicine: Reexamining "the Elephant Man" -- 2 / Two Bodies, Two Selves, Two Sexes: Conjoined Twins and "the Double-Bodied Hindoo Boy" -- 3 / The Missing Link and the Hairy Belle: Evolution, Imperialism, and "Primitive" Sexuality -- 4 / Aztecs and Earthmen: Declining Civilizations and Dying Races -- 5 / "When the Cannibal King Began to Talk": Performing Race, Class, and Ethnicity -- Conclusion / The Decline of the Freak Show -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910454828703321 |
Durbach Nadja <1971->
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| Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2009 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The spectacle of deformity : freak shows and modern British culture / / Nadja Durbach
| The spectacle of deformity : freak shows and modern British culture / / Nadja Durbach |
| Autore | Durbach Nadja <1971-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , 2009 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xiii, 273 pages) |
| Disciplina | 791.35094109034 |
| Soggetto topico |
Abnormalities, Human - Great Britain - History - 19th century
Freak shows - Great Britain - History - 19th century Human body - Social aspects - Great Britain - History - 19th century |
| Soggetto non controllato |
1847
anthropology british culture cannibal kings conjoined twins cultural otherness cultural studies deformity disability elephant man european history exploitation freak show performers freak shows great britain human bodies imperial ideology lalloo missing link modern history modern identity modern sensibilities national identity nonfiction psychology scientists social history social issues social purpose social purposes |
| ISBN |
1-282-35997-5
9786612359972 0-520-94489-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Exhibiting Freaks -- 1 / Monstrosity, Masculinity, and Medicine: Reexamining "the Elephant Man" -- 2 / Two Bodies, Two Selves, Two Sexes: Conjoined Twins and "the Double-Bodied Hindoo Boy" -- 3 / The Missing Link and the Hairy Belle: Evolution, Imperialism, and "Primitive" Sexuality -- 4 / Aztecs and Earthmen: Declining Civilizations and Dying Races -- 5 / "When the Cannibal King Began to Talk": Performing Race, Class, and Ethnicity -- Conclusion / The Decline of the Freak Show -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778402703321 |
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Durbach Nadja <1971->
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| Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , 2009 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The spectacle of deformity : freak shows and modern British culture / / Nadja Durbach
| The spectacle of deformity : freak shows and modern British culture / / Nadja Durbach |
| Autore | Durbach Nadja <1971-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , 2009 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xiii, 273 pages) |
| Disciplina | 791.35094109034 |
| Soggetto topico |
Abnormalities, Human - Great Britain - History - 19th century
Freak shows - Great Britain - History - 19th century Human body - Social aspects - Great Britain - History - 19th century |
| Soggetto non controllato |
1847
anthropology british culture cannibal kings conjoined twins cultural otherness cultural studies deformity disability elephant man european history exploitation freak show performers freak shows great britain human bodies imperial ideology lalloo missing link modern history modern identity modern sensibilities national identity nonfiction psychology scientists social history social issues social purpose social purposes |
| ISBN |
1-282-35997-5
9786612359972 0-520-94489-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Exhibiting Freaks -- 1 / Monstrosity, Masculinity, and Medicine: Reexamining "the Elephant Man" -- 2 / Two Bodies, Two Selves, Two Sexes: Conjoined Twins and "the Double-Bodied Hindoo Boy" -- 3 / The Missing Link and the Hairy Belle: Evolution, Imperialism, and "Primitive" Sexuality -- 4 / Aztecs and Earthmen: Declining Civilizations and Dying Races -- 5 / "When the Cannibal King Began to Talk": Performing Race, Class, and Ethnicity -- Conclusion / The Decline of the Freak Show -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910809663403321 |
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Durbach Nadja <1971->
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| Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , 2009 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Victorian Freaks : The Social Context of Freaking in Britain / / edited by Marlene Tromp
| Victorian Freaks : The Social Context of Freaking in Britain / / edited by Marlene Tromp |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Columbus : , : Ohio State University Press, , 2008 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xiii, 328 p.) : ill. ; |
| Disciplina | 616.0430941 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | TrompMarlene <1966-> |
| 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 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| 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. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910524669203321 |
| Columbus : , : Ohio State University Press, , 2008 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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