Spectacle of Deformity: Freak Shows and Modern British Culture - Nadja Durbach - Books - University of California Press - 9780520257689 - October 13, 2009
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Nadja Durbach
Spectacle of Deformity: Freak Shows and Modern British Culture

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In 1847, during the great age of the freak show, the British periodical Punch bemoaned the public's 'prevailing taste for deformity'. This work argues that far from being purely exploitative, displays of anomalous bodies served a deeper social purpose as they generated popular and scientific debates over the meanings attached to bodily difference.

288 pages, 15 b/w photographs

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Released October 13, 2009
ISBN13 9780520257689
Publishers University of California Press
Pages 288
Dimensions 162 × 234 × 22 mm   ·   534 g
Language English  

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