Neo-Victorian Freakery: The Cultural Afterlife of the Victorian Freak Show

by Ms Helen Davies

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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. 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.
  • ISBN10 1349567558
  • ISBN13 9781349567553
  • Publish Date 14 January 2014
  • Publish Status Cancelled
  • Out of Print 13 April 2017
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Palgrave MacMillan
  • Edition 2015 ed.
  • Format Paperback (US Trade)
  • Pages 239
  • Language English