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Durbach Nadja:
The Spectacle Of Deformity

Freak Shows And Modern British Culture

University Presses Of California, Columbia And Princeton (United States), 2009
Hardback, 288 pages
Size: 235x159 mm
ISBN: 9780520257689
ISBN-10: 0520257685

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The Spectacle Of Deformity

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.

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