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)

By Thomas Fahy

Book Overview

This book examines the artistic use of freak shows between 1900-1950. 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? Fahy examines this change and how artists responded.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1403974039
• ISBN13: 9781403974037
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.5"