Freak Shows and the Modern American Imagination: Constructing the Damaged Body from Willa Cather to Truman Capote

by Thomas Fahy

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Freak Shows and the Modern American Imagination examines the artistic use of freak shows between 1900 and 1950. During this period, the freak show shifted from a highly popular and profitable form of entertainment to a reviled one. But why? And how does this response reflect larger social changes in the United States at the time? Artists responded to this change by using the freakish body as a tool for exploring problematic social attitudes about...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0230120989

ISBN13:9780230120983

Release Date:December 2011

Publisher:Palgrave MacMillan

Length:192 Pages

Weight:0.55 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 5.4" x 8.4"

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History Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Social Science Social Sciences

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