Title: Neo-Victorian freakery : the cultural afterlife of the Victorian freak show /
Authors: Davies, Helen, 1983-
Year: 2015
Subjects: English literature History and criticism; Human body in literature.; Curiosities and wonders in literature.; Exhibitions Great Britain History; Abnormalities, Human History.; Freak shows Influence.; Human body in motion pictures.; Curiosities and wonders in motion pictures.; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.; Kultur; Missbildung; Anomalie; Kuriosität; Rezeption; Schaustellergewerbe; Engelsk litteratur historia.; Människokroppen i litteraturen.; Människokroppen i filmen.; Trivia i litteraturen.; Trivia i filmen.; Side show influenser.; Utställningar historia.
Abstract: "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." -- Publisher's description
Contents: Mixing (re)Memory and Desire: Constructing Sarah Baartman -- Separation Anxieties: Sex, Death, and Chang and Eng Bunker -- Excessively Feminine? Anna Swan, Gendering Giantesses, and the Genre of the ‘True Life Story’ Pamphlet -- Innocence, Experience, and Childhood Dramas: Charles Stratton and Lavinia Warren -- The Strange Case of Joseph and Jack: Joseph Merrick and Spectacles of Deviance -- Afterword: The Neo-Victorian Enfreakment of P. T. Barnum.