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

Davies, Helen

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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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2015-09-07

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9781137402554

DOI: 10.1057/9781137402561

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 239