Victorian Freaks : The Social Context of Freaking in Britain /
Victorian Freaks : The Social Context of Freaking in Britain /
edited by Marlene Tromp.
- 1 online resource (368 pages): ill.
- Book collections on Project MUSE. .
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.
Open Access
9780814272015
Social history.
Human body--Social aspects.
Freak shows.
Abnormalities, Human.
Exhibitions de monstres--Histoire--Grande-Bretagne--19e siecle.
Corps humain--Aspect social--Histoire--Grande-Bretagne--19e siecle.
Histoire sociale--Histoire.
Abnormalities, Human--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Freak shows--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Human body--Social aspects--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Abnormalities, Human--History.--Great Britain
History, 19th Century--Great Britain.
Social history--History.
Great Britain.
History.
Electronic books.
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.
Open Access
9780814272015
Social history.
Human body--Social aspects.
Freak shows.
Abnormalities, Human.
Exhibitions de monstres--Histoire--Grande-Bretagne--19e siecle.
Corps humain--Aspect social--Histoire--Grande-Bretagne--19e siecle.
Histoire sociale--Histoire.
Abnormalities, Human--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Freak shows--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Human body--Social aspects--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Abnormalities, Human--History.--Great Britain
History, 19th Century--Great Britain.
Social history--History.
Great Britain.
History.
Electronic books.