Freakery : cultural spectacles of the extraordinary body /

Rosemarie Thomson's groundbreaking anthology probes America's disposition toward the visually different. The book's essays fall into four main categories, historical explorations of American freak shows in the era of P.T. Barnum, the articulation of the freak in literary and textual d...

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Other Authors:	Garland-Thomson, Rosemarie
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : New York University Press, [1996]
Subjects:	Abnormalities, Human > Social aspects. Human body > Social aspects. Sideshows > History.