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Freak Shows and the Modern American Imagination: Constructing the Damaged Body from Willa Cather to Truman Capote (American Literature Readings in the Twenty-First Century)
Freak Shows and the Modern American Imagination Constructing the Damaged Body from Willa Cather to Truman Capote - American Literature Readings in the Twenty-First Century
Author: Thomas Fahy
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 ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781403974037
ISBN-10: 1403974039
Publication Date: 10/3/2006
Pages: 204
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Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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