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The Victorian freak show : the significance of disability and physical differences in 19th-century fiction
- Title
- The Victorian freak show : the significance of disability and physical differences in 19th-century fiction / Lillian Craton.
- Author
- Craton, Lillian.
- Publication
- Amherst, NY : Cambria Press, c2009.
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Details
- Description
- xii, 244 p.; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: Physical difference and the nineteenth century -- Littleness in the novels of Charles Dickens -- The widest lap: fatness and nurturance in nineteenth-century fiction -- Female masculinity in sensational fiction, 1860-1890 -- The mutable body and the looking glass -- Conclusion: reflecting on the odd body.
- Call Number
- JFE 10-1393
- ISBN
- 9781604976533 (alk. paper)
- 1604976535 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2009038309
- OCLC
- YBP 2009038309
- Author
- Craton, Lillian.
- Title
- The Victorian freak show : the significance of disability and physical differences in 19th-century fiction / Lillian Craton.
- Imprint
- Amherst, NY : Cambria Press, c2009.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 10-1393