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Neo-Victorian Freakery : The Cultural Afterlife of the Victorian Freak Show / by Helen Davies.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Davies, Helen, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Literature, Modern--20th century.
- Literature, Modern.
- European literature.
- Fiction.
- Literature--History and criticism.
- Literature.
- Twentieth-Century Literature.
- European Literature.
- Fiction Literature.
- Literary History.
- Local Subjects:
- Twentieth-Century Literature.
- European Literature.
- Fiction Literature.
- Literary History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (246 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2015.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781137402561
- 1137402563
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