The Victorian Freak Show: The Significance of Disability and Phy ...

Copyright 2009 Lillian Craton

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Craton, Lillian E.
     The Victorian freak show : the significance of disability and physical differences in 19th-century fiction / Lillian E. Craton.
           p. cm.
     Includes bibliographical references and index.
     ISBN 978-1-60497-653-3 (alk. paper)
1. English fiction—19th century—History and criticism. 2. Human body in literature. 3. Abnormalities, Human, in literature. 4. People with disabilities in literature. I. Title.

     PR878.B63C73 2010
     823'.8093561—dc22

2009038309