Neo-Victorian Freakery: The Cultural Afterlife of the Victorian Freak Show by Helen Davies

Neo-Victorian Freakery: The Cultural Afterlife of the Victorian Freak Show

Helen Davies

246 pages first pub 2015 (editions)

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What is the enduring appeal of Victorian freak show performers in contemporary culture? What can the exhibition of people with extraordinary bodies in the nineteenth century tell us about our own attitudes towards physical difference? Does neo-Vic...

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