Spectacle of Deformity: Freak Shows and Modern British Culture by Nadja Durbach

Spectacle of Deformity: Freak Shows and Modern British Culture

Nadja Durbach

288 pages first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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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 vividly detailed work argues that far from being purely exploitative, displays of anomalous bodies served a ...

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