Title:
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NEO-VICTORIAN FREAKERY
THE CULTURAL AFTERLIFE OF THE VICTORIAN FREAK SHOW |
Volume: |
2015 |
By: |
Helen Davies |
Format: |
Hardback |
List price:
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£69.99 |
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ISBN 10: |
1137402555 |
ISBN 13: |
9781137402554 |
Publisher: |
PALGRAVE MACMILLAN |
Pub. date: |
7 September, 2015 |
Edition: |
2015 ed. |
Pages: |
245 |
Description: |
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. |
Synopsis: |
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. |
Illustrations: |
biography |
Publication: |
UK |
Imprint: |
Palgrave Macmillan |
Returns: |
Non-returnable |