Victorian Freaks The Social Context of Freaking in Britain
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Columbus :
Ohio State University Press
2008.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009424498906719 |
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.
