Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 328 p.) : ill |
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Book collections on Project MUSE
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Contents |
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 |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Description based on print version record |
Subject |
Social history -- History
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History, 19th Century -- Great Britain
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Abnormalities, Human -- Great Britain -- History
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Human body -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
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Freak shows -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
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Abnormalities, Human -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
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Social Conditions -- history -- Great Britain
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History, 19th Century -- Great Britain
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Congenital Abnormalities -- history -- Great Britain
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Abnormalities, Human
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Freak shows
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Human body -- Social aspects
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Social history
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Great Britain
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Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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Author |
Tromp, Marlene, 1966-
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Project Muse. distributor.
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LC no. |
2007045057 |
ISBN |
9780814272015 |
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0814272010 |
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