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245 00 a| Victorian freaks :b| the social context of freakery in Britain /c| edited by Marlene Tromp.;

300 a| xiii, 328 pages :b| illustrations ;c| 24 cm;

336 a| text2| rdacontent;

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504 a| Includes bibliographical references and index.;

505 0 a| 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.;

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Victorian freaks : the social context of freakery in Britain / edited by Marlene Tromp.

Other author	Tromp, Marlene, 1966-
Format	Book
Publication Info	Columbus : Ohio State University Press, ©2008.
Description	xiii, 328 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Supplemental Content	Contributor biographical information
Supplemental Content	Publisher description
Subjects	Abnormalities, Human--Great Britain. --History. --19th century. Freak shows--Great Britain. --History. --19th century. Human body--Social aspects. --Great Britain. --History. --19th century. Abnormalities, Human--History. --Great Britain. History, 19th Century--Great Britain. Social history--History. --Great Britain.

Contents	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.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN	2007045057
ISBN	9780814210864 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN	0814210864 (cloth : alk. paper)

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