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Victorian Freaks: The Social Context of Freakery in Britain Hardcover - 2008 - 2nd Edition
by Marlene Tromp (Editor)
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- Title Victorian Freaks: The Social Context of Freakery in Britain
- Author Marlene Tromp (Editor)
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition number 2nd
- Edition 2
- Pages 368
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Ohio State University Press, Columbia
- Date April 8, 2008
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780814210864 / 0814210864
- Weight 1.4 lbs (0.64 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6 x 1.1 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 2.79 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects History, 19th Century - Great Britain, Abnormalities, Human - Great Britain -
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2007045057
- Dewey Decimal Code 616.043
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Columbia OH: Ohio State University Press, 2008. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. 368 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to corners. While “freaks” have captivated our imagination since well before the nineteenth century, the Victorians flocked to shows featuring dancing dwarves, bearded ladies, “missing links,” and six-legged sheep. Indeed, this period has been described by Rosemarie Garland-Thomson as the epoch of “consolidation” for freakery: an era of social change, enormously popular freak shows, and taxonomic frenzy. Victorian Freaks: The Social Context of Freakery in Britain, edited by Marlene Tromp, turns to that rich nexus, examining the struggle over definitions of “freakery” and the unstable and sometimes conflicting ways in which freakery was understood and deployed. As the first study centralizing British culture, this collection discusses figures as varied as Joseph Merrick, “The Elephant Man”; Daniel Lambert, “King of…
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