Neo-Victorian Freakery

The Cultural Afterlife of the Victorian Freak Show

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

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Neo-Victorian Freakery explores the way in which contemporary fiction, film, and television has revisited the lives of nineteenth-century freak show performers. It locates the neo-Victorian freak show as a crucial forum for debating the politics of disability, gender, sexuality and race within the genre more broadly.

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Utgivningsdatum2015-09-07
Mått140 x 216 x 19 mm
Vikt420 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor239
Upplaga2015
FörlagPalgrave Macmillan
ISBN9781137402554

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Introduction: Distorted images and re-membered bodies: Constructing Neo-Victorian Freakery 1. Mixing (re)memory and desire: Constructing Sarah Baartman 2. Separation Anxieties: Sex, Death, and Chang and Eng Bunker 3. Excessively feminine? Anna Swan, gendering giantesses, and the genre of the 'true life story' pamphlet 4. Innocence, experience, and childhood dramas: Charles Stratton and Lavinia Warren 5. The Strange Case of Joseph and Jack: Joseph Merrick and spectacles of deviance Notes Bibliography Index

“The current volume extends the analysis to the reappearance of Victorian freaks in contemporary fiction, plays, films, graphic novels, and television. … provides many perspectives, including her own, on the original experiences of Sarah Baartman … . Davies demonstrates that long-dead freaks still raise disturbing questions about sexuality, race, and otherness. Extensive notes. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals; general readers.” (R. Sugarman, Choice, Vol. 53 (9), May, 2016)