The Victorian Freak Show: The Significance of Disability and Physical Differences in 19th-Century Fiction by Craton, Lillian E. Craton

The Victorian Freak Show: The Significance of Disability and Physical Differences in 19th-Century Fiction

Craton, Lillian E. Craton

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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 England throughout much of the nineteenth century, and souvenir portraits of performing frea...

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