Neo-Victorian Freakery [electronic resource] : The Cultural Afterlife of the Victorian Freak Show /
Davies, Helen.author.
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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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Literature, Modern-20th century.
British literature.
Fiction.
Literature-History and criticism.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
British and Irish Literature.
Fiction.
Literary History.