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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 respond...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780230120983
ISBN-10: 0230120989
Publication Date: 9/13/2011
Pages: 288
Edition: First Edition
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Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Book Type: Paperback
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