Victorian freaks
Subtitle: the social context of freakery in Britain
By: edited by Marlene Tromp.
Contributors: Tromp, Marlene, 1966-
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Columbus
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780814210864
Subjects: Abnormalities, Human -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.; Freak shows -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.; Body, Human -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.; Congenital Abnormalities -- history -- Great Britain.; History, 19th Century -- Great Britain.; Social Conditions -- history -- Great Britain.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Even as you and I : freak shows and lay discourse on spectacular deformity / Heather McHold; value: Freaklore : the dissemination, fragmentation, and reinvention of the legend of Daniel Lambert, king of fat men / Joyce L. Huff; value: White wings and six-legged muttons : the freakish animal / Timothy Neil; value: "Poor Hoo Loo" : sentiment, stoicism, and the grotesque in British imperial medicine / Meegan Kennedy; value: Elephant talk : language and enfranchisement in the Merrick case / Christine C. Ferguson; value: The Missing Link and the Hairy Belle : Krao and the Victorian discourses of evolution, imperialism, and primitive sexuality / Nadja Durbach; value: Empire and the Indian freak : the "Miniature Man" from Cawnpore and the "Marvellous Indian Boy" on tour in England / Marlene Tromp; value: The Victorian mummy-fetish : H. Rider Haggard, Frank Aubrey, and the white mummy / Kelly Hurley; value: Our bear women, ourselves : affiliating with Julia Pastrana / Rebecca Stern; value: Queering the marriage plot : Wilkie Collins's The law and the lady / Martha Stoddard Holmes; value: Freaks that matter : the dolls' dressmaker, the doctor's assistant, and the limits of difference / Melissa Free; value: A collaborative aesthetic : Levinas's idea of responsibility and the photographs of Charles Eisenmann and the late nineteenth-century freak-performer / Christopher R. Smit.