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Spectacle of Deformity: Freak Shows and Modern British Culture Hardcover - 2009 - 1st Edition
by Nadja Durbach
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"Nadja Durbach's work generates fresh insights on familiar phenomena such as the Elephant Man, but pushes its enquiry substantially further, extracting significant conclusions from other sensational but hitherto critically unplumbed wonders of the showman's world in the nineteenth century. An excellent piece of historical research."--Peter Bailey, author of Popular Culture and Performance in the Victorian City
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- Title Spectacle of Deformity: Freak Shows and Modern British Culture
- Author Nadja Durbach
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 288
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of California Press, Berkeley, CA
- Date 2009-10-13
- Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780520257689 / 0520257685
- Weight 1.15 lbs (0.52 kg)
- Dimensions 9.2 x 6.3 x 1 in (23.37 x 16.00 x 2.54 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Abnormalities, Human - Great Britain -, Freak shows - Great Britain - History - 19th
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009009244
- Dewey Decimal Code 616.043
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- Chronicle of Higher Education, 11/13/2009, Page 18
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Hardback. New. In 1847, during the great age of the freak show, the British periodical Punch bemoaned the public's 'prevailing taste for deformity'. This work argues that far from being purely exploitative, displays of anomalous bodies served a deeper social purpose as they generated popular and scientific debates over the meanings attached to bodily difference.
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