| Description |
x, 200 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-189) and index. |
| Contents |
The cultural work of American freak shows, 1835-1940. The spectacle of the extraordinary body -- Constituting the average man -- Identification and the longing for distinction -- From freak to specimen : "The Hottentot Venus" and "The Ugliest Woman in the World" -- The end of the prodigious body. |
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Benevolent maternalism and the disabled women in Stowe, Davis, and Phelps. The maternal benefactress and her disabled sisters -- The disabled figure as a call for justice : Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's cabin -- Empowering the maternal benefactress -- Benevolent maternalism's flight from the body -- The female body as liability -- Two opposing scripts of female embodiment : Rebecca Harding Davis's Life in the iron mills -- The triumph of the beautiful, disembodied heroine : Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's The silent partner. |
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Disabled women as powerful women in Petry, Morrison, and Lorde. Revising Black female subjectivity -- The extraordinary woman as powerful woman : Ann Petry's The street -- From the grotesque to the cyborg -- The extraordinary body as the historicized body : Toni Morrison's disabled women -- The extraordinary subject : Audre Lorde's Zami : a new spelling of my name -- The poetics of particularity. |
| Subject |
American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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American fiction. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
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American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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People with disabilities in literature.
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People with disabilities in literature. |
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Human body in literature.
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Human body in literature. |
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Human body -- Social aspects.
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Human body -- Social aspects. |
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People with disabilities -- Social conditions.
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People with disabilities -- Social conditions. |
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Women in literature.
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Women in literature. |
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Popular culture -- United States -- History.
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Popular culture. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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Sideshows -- United States -- History.
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Sideshows. |
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Feminism and literature -- United States.
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Feminism and literature. |
| ISBN |
0231105177 paper acid-free paper |
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0231105169 cloth acid-free paper |
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