Victorian Freaks : The Social Context of Freaking in Britain /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Tromp, Marlene, 1966-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Columbus : Ohio State University Press, 2008.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Social history.
Human body > Social aspects.
Freak shows.
Abnormalities, Human.
Exhibitions de monstres > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Corps humain > Aspect social > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Histoire sociale > Histoire.
Abnormalities, Human > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Freak shows > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Human body > Social aspects > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Abnormalities, Human > Great Britain > History.
History, 19th Century > Great Britain.
Social history > History.
Great Britain.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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