Canadian Carnival Freaks and the Extraordinary Body, 1900-1970s
Record details
- ISBN: 9781487515744
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (320 p.)
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Computer data. - Publisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018]
- Copyright: ©2018
Content descriptions
General Note: | CatMonthString:january.23 Multi-User. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Pookie's Story -- 1. Monsters and Freaks: Exhibitionary Culture and the Order of Things -- 2. The Carnival State: Protests, Moral Regulation, and Profits -- 3. The Carnival Business in Canada: Paternalism, Belonging, and Freak Show Labour -- 4. The Twentieth-Century Freak Show: Medical Discourse, Normality, and Race -- 5. Not Just Child's Play: Child Freak Show Consumers and Workers -- 6. The Spectacularization of Small and Cute: Midget Shows and the Dionne Quintuplets -- Epilogue: "I guess it really is all over" − The End Which Is Not One -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
Restrictions on Access Note: | restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization |
Type of Computer File or Data Note: | Text (HTML), electronic book. |
System Details Note: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. Mode of access: Internet. |
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note: | Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff. Access restricted through purchase. |
Language Note: | In English. |
Issuing Body Note: | Made available online by publisher. |
Source of Description Note: | Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Aug 2021) |
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Subject: | Multi-User. HISTORY / Canada / General |