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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Fiedler, Leslie A. Freaks. New York : Simon and Schuster, c1978 (OCoLC)620023618 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Leslie A Fiedler |
| ISBN: | 0671225057 9780671225056 |
| OCLC Number: | 3274146 |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
| Description: | 367 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Dwarfs: from Knoumhotpou to General Tom Thumb.--Dwarfs: changing the image.--The dream of giants.--Supermen and superwomen: the terror behind the dream.--Beauty and the beast: the eros of ugliness.--Wild men and feral children.--Hermaphrodites.--Siamese twins.--From theology to teratology.--Freaks and the literary imagination.--The silence of freaks and the message of the side show.--Freaking out.--The myth of the mutant and the image of the freak. |
| Responsibility: | Leslie Fiedler. |
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