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" Victorian freaks : "
edited by Marlene Tromp.
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1001070
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b755440
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Victorian freaks : : the social context of freakery in Britain /\ edited by Marlene Tromp.
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| Publication Statement
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Columbus :: Ohio State University Press,, ©2008.
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xiii, 328 pages :: illustrations ;; 24 cm
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0814210864
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081429166X
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9780814291665
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Even as you and I : freak shows and lay discourse on spectacular deformity / Heather McHold -- Freaklore : the dissemination, fragmentation, and reinvention of the legend of Daniel Lambert, king of fat men / Joyce L. Huff -- White wings and six-legged muttons : the freakish animal / Timothy Neil -- "Poor Hoo Loo" : sentiment, stoicism, and the grotesque in British imperial medicine / Meegan Kennedy -- Elephant talk : language and enfranchisement in the Merrick case / Christine C. Ferguson -- The Missing Link and the Hairy Belle : Krao and the Victorian discourses of evolution, imperialism, and primitive sexuality / Nadja Durbach -- Empire and the Indian freak : the "Miniature Man" from Cawnpore and the "Marvellous Indian Boy" on tour in England / Marlene Tromp -- The Victorian mummy-fetish : H. Rider Haggard, Frank Aubrey, and the white mummy / Kelly Hurley -- Our bear women, ourselves : affiliating with Julia Pastrana / Rebecca Stern -- Queering the marriage plot : Wilkie Collins's The law and the lady / Martha Stoddard Holmes -- Freaks that matter : the dolls' dressmaker, the doctor's assistant, and the limits of difference / Melissa Free -- A collaborative aesthetic : Levinas's idea of responsibility and the photographs of Charles Eisenmann and the late nineteenth-century freak-performer / Christopher R. Smit.
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Abnormalities, Human-- Great Britain-- History-- 19th century.
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Freak shows-- Great Britain-- History-- 19th century.
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Human body-- Social aspects-- Great Britain-- History-- 19th century.
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Abnormalities, Human.
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Ausstellung (Veranstaltung)
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Ausstellung
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Behinderung
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Freak shows.
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Health and Fitness.
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Health and Wellbeing.
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Human body-- Social aspects.
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Mensch
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Missbildung
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Missbildung.
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Congenital Abnormalities-- history.
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History, 19th Century.
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Social Conditions-- history.
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United Kingdom.
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Great Britain.
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Großbritannien
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Grossbritannien.
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| Dewey Classification
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616.0430941
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| LC Classification
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QM691.V53 2008
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2008 H-355
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WZ 308V645 2008
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LC 59190rvk
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MS 1210rvk
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MS 6270rvk
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NP 5700rvk
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| Added Entry
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Tromp, Marlene,1966-
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