Neo-Victorian Freakery

The Cultural Afterlife of the Victorian Freak Show
2015. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-137-40255-4
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 239 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 4139 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Davies, Helen

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Tanz Andere Darstellende Künste
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Über Autor(innen)

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