Victorian Freaks  The Social Context of Freaking in Britain / 
edited by Marlene Tromp. 
 - 1 online resource (xiii, 328 p.) :   ill. ; 
 - Book collections on Project MUSE. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> Open Access 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780814272015 0814272010 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Social Conditions--history--Great Britain.<br/>History, 19th Century--Great Britain.<br/>Congenital Abnormalities--history--Great Britain.<br/>Human body--Social aspects--History--Great Britain--19th century.<br/>Freak shows--History--Great Britain--19th century.<br/>Abnormalities, Human--History--Great Britain--19th century.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books. 
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>QM691  / .V53 2008 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>616.0430941