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The Victorian Freak Show
Language: en
Pages: 260
Authors: Lillian Craton
Categories: Literary Criticism & Collections
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009 - Publisher: Cambria Press

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"The Victorian freak show was at once mainstream and subversive. Spectacles of strange, exotic, and titillating bodies drew large middle-class audiences in Engl
The Wonders
Language: en
Pages: 458
Authors: John Woolf
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019 - Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books

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The untold story of the Victorian freak show and circus, and the remarkable cast of characters who performed in them.
American Sideshow
Language: en
Pages: 306
Authors: Marc Hartzman
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-09-21 - Publisher: Penguin

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A fascinating look into the history of the American sideshow and its performers. Learn what's real, what's fake, and what's just downright bizarre. You've proba
Neo-Victorian Freakery
Language: en
Pages: 227
Authors: Helen Davies
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-04-29 - Publisher: Springer

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Neo-Victorian Freakery explores the way in which contemporary fiction, film, and television has revisited the lives of nineteenth-century freak show performers.
Spectacle of Deformity
Language: en
Pages: 289
Authors: Nadja Durbach
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-10-13 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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In 1847, during the great age of the freak show, the British periodical Punch bemoaned the public's "prevailing taste for deformity." This vividly detailed work