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020 _z9780814210864 (cloth : alk. paper)
020 _z0814210864 (cloth : alk. paper)
035 _a(OCoLC)1228476239
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_cMdBmJHUP
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050 0 4 _aQM691
_b.V53 2008
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245 0 0 _aVictorian Freaks
_bThe Social Context of Freaking in Britain /
_cedited by Marlene Tromp.
264 1 _bOhio State University Press,
264 3 _bProject MUSE,
300 _a1 online resource (xiii, 328 p.) :
_bill. ;
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aEven 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.
506 0 _aOpen Access
_fUnrestricted online access
_2star
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
650 2 0 _aSocial Conditions
_xhistory
_zGreat Britain.
650 2 0 _aHistory, 19th Century
_zGreat Britain.
650 1 0 _aCongenital Abnormalities
_xhistory
_zGreat Britain.
650 0 _aHuman body
_xSocial aspects
_zGreat Britain
_xHistory
_y19th century.
650 0 _aFreak shows
_zGreat Britain
_xHistory
_y19th century.
650 0 _aAbnormalities, Human
_zGreat Britain
_xHistory
_y19th century.
655 7 _aElectronic books.
_2local
700 1 _aTromp, Marlene,
_d1966-
710 2 _aProject Muse.
_edistributor
830 0 _aBook collections on Project MUSE.
856 4 0 _zFull text available:
_uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/book/27912/
999 _c24466
_d24466