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Dress and Identity
IAA Interdisciplinary Series: Studies in Archaeology, History, Literature and Art. Volume II. Series Editor: Gillian Shepherd University of Birmingham
The Role of the State in Social Transformation Under the Impact of the World Crisis
SCOTT (Copy 1): From the John Holmes Library collection.
Exploring the Cultural History of Continental European Freak Shows and ‘Enfreakment’
This collection offers cultural historical analyses of enfreakment and freak shows, examining the social construction and spectacular display of wondrous, monstrous, or curious Otherness in the formerly relatively neglected region of Continental Europe. Forgotten stories are uncovered about freak-show celebrities, medical specimen, and philosophical fantasies presenting the anatomically unusual in a wide range of sites, including curiosity cabinets, anatomical museums, and traveling circus acts. The essays explore the locally specific dimensions of the exhibition of extraordinary bodies within their particular historical, cultural and political context. Thus the impact of the Nazi eugenics p...
A Thread of Years
Traces the decline of Anglo-American civilization and the concept of the gentleman in a fictionalized social history that follows a man named Kensington and the people who surround him from 1901 to 1969.
Sideshow U.S.A.
A staple of American popular culture during the 19th and early 20th centuries, the freak show seemed to vanish after World War II. This book reveals the image of the freak show, with its combination of the grotesque, horrific and amusing specimens.
