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

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: 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"