Neo-Victorian Freakery

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

Helen Davies2016
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.
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