Neo-Victorian Freakery: The Cultural Afterlife of the Victorian Freak Show
Author:   Helen Davies
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2015
ISBN:  

9781137402554


Pages:   239
Publication Date:   07 September 2015
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Helen Davies
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2015
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   4.139kg
ISBN:  

9781137402554


ISBN 10:   1137402555
Pages:   239
Publication Date:   07 September 2015
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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The current volume extends the analysis to the reappearance of Victorian freaks in contemporary fiction, plays, films, graphic novels, and television. ... provides many perspectives, including her own, on the original experiences of Sarah Baartman ... . Davies demonstrates that long-dead freaks still raise disturbing questions about sexuality, race, and otherness. Extensive notes. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals; general readers. (R. Sugarman, Choice, Vol. 53 (9), May, 2016)


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Helen Davies is Senior Lecturer in English Studies at Teesside University, UK. She is the author of Gender and Ventriloquism in Victorian and Neo-Victorian Fiction: Passionate Puppets (2012), and has published widely on gender and sexuality in Victorian and neo-Victorian literature.  

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