Alice. See Carroll, Lewis

All the Year Round , 34, 91–92, 96, 103, 105, 214n4

Althusser, Louis, 9–10, 20

Amazon women, 150–151, 161

angel in the house, 38, 88–89, 103

Armstrong, Nancy, 173–175, 181–182, 192

Auerbach, Nina, 66–67, 77–78, 185, 187–189, 191–192

average man. See Quetelet, Lambert Adolphe

Bakhtin, Mikhail. See also grotesque., 18–26, 36, 44–45, 51, 55–56, 107, 114, 170, 206, 211n6

Rabelais and His World , 18, 21, 23, 114, 170

Barnum, P. T., 28, 58, 121, 203, 217n16

Baartman, Saartjie, 29, 161, 164, 212n15

bearded women, 1–4, 6, 27–29, 121–122, 127, 133, 135, 150, 211n1, 215n3

Bogdan, Robert, 5, 49, 57, 61

Bordo, Susan, 11–12, 14–17, 214n6, 215n8

“Boule de Suif”. See Maupassant, Guy de

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth, 129, 149

Lady Audley's Secret , 124, 128, 131–132, 136, 138, 143, 151, 153–154, 166, 216n5, 217n14

Braziel, Jana Evans, 109, 214n3

Bull, John, 90, 110

Butler, Judith, 14–17, 123, 215

in Bakhtin, 18–24, 36, 38–39, 44–45, 56, 114, 170, 206, 211n6

carnivals and fairs in the nineteenth century, 25–26, 29, 88, 202

Carroll, Lewis, 37, 39, 170–204

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland , 171–196, 204

Through the Looking-Glass , 171–172, 175, 186, 193–201, 204

Clofullia, Madame, 121–122

Collins, Wilkie, 37, 39, 130, 149

No Name , 31, 127, 129, 138–147, 152

Woman in White , 3, 123–127, 132–137, 147, 150–151

Copperfield, Clara and David, 96–104, 108

corsets, 92–93, 101, 113, 115, 118, 155

cross-dressing, 122, 147, 154–160, 162–165

Crummles, Ninetta. See Infant Phenomenon

cultural studies, 6, 8, 10, 12–13, 87

Cvetkovich, Ann, 215n5, 217n14

Darwin, Charles, 3, 28–29, 130, 180, 182, 211n2

Derrida, Jacques, 12–13, 172, 211n5, 214n8

Dickens, Charles, 23–25, 37–38, 43–44, 46, 90–91, 94, 113, 119, 130, 143, 170, 174, 185, 208–209, 212n2, 213n4–n9

Christmas Carol , 101–102

David Copperfield , 43, 67–76, 95–104, 114

Little Dorrit , 43–44, 60–63, 95

Nicholas Nickleby , 41–44, 46–47, 51, 63–66, 195

Old Curiosity Shop , 43, 47–60, 64–65, 70, 84, 95, 104–108, 114–115

Our Mutual Friend , 43, 67–68, 76–84

Uncommercial Traveller , 32

disability studies, 3–5, 8, 11, 13–15, 17–18, 44, 49, 109, 111, 211n1

Dixie, Florence, 159–160, 217n15

Dodgson, Charles. See Lewis Carroll

dueling, 152, 155, 157–158

dwarfism. See also Tom Thumb, Royal American Midgets, 41–85

achondroplastic and hypopituitary causes, 57, 69, 127

influence on aggrandized and exotic freak presentations, 57–58, 62, 68, 80, 127

eating disorders, 16, 38, 93–94, 111

exoticism, 57–58, 62, 68, 80, 127

fat, 16, 34, 38, 50, 69, 87–120, 123, 127, 137, 208–209, 214n3, 215n9, 217n12

in critical theory, 109–115

Fausto-Sterling, Anne, 14–15, 212n15

in critical theory, 6, 8, 13–17, 39, 89, 124–125, 128, 131, 135, 215n5, 217n11, 218nn17–18

feminist attitudes in the nineteenth century, 145, 147–168, 209

Foucault, Michele, 3, 8–12, 20–21

Garland-Thomson, Rosemarie, 4–5, 18, 26, 29, 37, 122, 211n1, 214n3, 215n1

gender performativity. See Butler, Judith

Gilman, Sander, 111–112, 212n15

Gloriana, or the Revolution of 1900. See Dixie, Florence

Gordon, Jan, 201–203, 220n13

Gramsci, Antonio, 6

Grand, Sarah, 146, 156

Graves, Robert, 169–170, 172

Great Exhibition of 1851, 29, 211n7

grotesque, 29, 31, 34–35, 206, 215n11

in theories of Bakhtin, 18–26, 44, 51, 55, 107, 114

comparison to sentimentalism, 38, 42–48, 50–56, 61–62, 65, 68, 71, 84–85, 208

Guiliano, Edward, 201–203, 220n13

Halberstam, Judith, 125, 158

hegemony, 6, 20, 31

Her Father's Name. See Marryat, Florence

Hollington, Michael, 56, 213n4

Houston, Gail Turley, 93–94, 99, 105

Huff, Joyce, 30, 90, 110–111, 214n4, 218n19

hybridity, 122, 126, 143, 160–163, 165–167, 170, 178–179

icon, 4, 88, 184, 187–188, 197, 203, 207–210, 213–214n2

Infant Phenomenon, 42–43, 63, 65–68, 76, 80, 195, 213n7

Jarley, Mrs., 49–51, 56, 58, 67, 84, 95, 105–108, 114–115, 117, 119, 123

Kincaid, James, 113, 191, 195, 212n3

Krao, 28

Lacan, Jacques, 7–8, 11, 198, 211n4, 218n3

Lacoste, Leona, 125, 147, 150–155, 157–158, 160–166, 217n16

Lady Audley's Secret. See Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

Lalloo the Indian Boy, 27–28, 35

Lambert, Daniel, 34, 92, 107

LeBesco, Kathleen, 109, 214n3

Ledger, Sally, 156, 216n10, 218n18

lesbianism in Victorian scientific theory, 156

Lévi-Strauss, Claude, 9

living skeleton, 25, 91

Marryatt, Florence, 37, 39, 125, 147, 150–155, 157–158, 160–166, 170, 217n16

Marx, Karl, 6–7, 9, 20, 45

Maunder, Andrew, 147, 215n4

Maupassant, Guy de, 38, 91, 115–120, 170, 215n12, 215n3

McMaster, Juliet, 32, 51–52, 71, 97

Melchior-Bonnet, Sabine, 31, 197–198, 200–201, 220n12

Merish, Lori, 212n1, 213n5

mirrors, 197–198, 200–201, 220n13

misers, 101–102, 108

Morris, Pam, 24–25, 71, 80–81, 213n7, 213n9

Mowcher, Miss, 68–76, 80–82, 84–85, 137, 141, 143, 213n7

Naturalism (French), 115, 215n3

New Historicism, 10

New Woman writers, 39, 124–125, 128–130, 146–148, 151, 155–158, 161, 215n3, 216n10, 217n11, 218n18

O’Neill, Philip, 134, 138–139, 145

Parnell, Paul, 44–46

Pastrana, Julia, 1–4, 6, 27–29, 121–122, 127, 211n1, 215n3

Patmore, Coventry, 88–89

Peggotty, Clara, 96–104, 113–114, 117, 119, 145

Petrović, Gajo, 6

photography, 171, 173–175, 197, 201–202

physiognomy, 31–32, 132, 136, 197, 212n16

phrenology, 31–32, 109, 136, 212n16

parody, 19, 36, 51, 56–57, 81

puppet show, 47–48, 53

Punch magazine, 123–129

Pyckett, Lyn, 148, 216n9

Quetelet, Lambert Adolphe, 32–35, 38, 53, 206–207, 221n1

Quilp, 52–59, 61, 69, 72, 76, 79–80, 104–105, 108, 184, 213n4

Rackin, Donald, 177

Redgrave, Richard, 45, 47, 58

reification, 6–7, 35

Richter, David, 10, 13

Royal American Midgets, 27, 29, 35

Ruskin, John, 89–90, 186

Salomé, 163–165

Saussure, Ferdinand de, 7, 12

Schlicke, Paul, 212n2, 213n4

sensation fiction, 39, 121–168

characteristics of, 123–130

debates in the Victorian press, 128–130

influence on New Woman writers, 146–148, 150

sentimentalism, 38, 42–48, 51–52, 56, 58, 60–62, 65–66, 71, 73–79, 84–85, 94–95, 185, 188, 208, 212n1

Showalter, Elaine, 131, 135, 148

Shuttleworth, Sally, 134, 216n8

Silver, Anna, 90, 93–94, 110–111

Southworth, E. D. E. N., 156–157

Stallybrass, Peter, 20, 23–24, 211n6

Stearns, Peter, 110, 217n12

Stern, Rebecca, 3–4, 127, 211n1

Stewart, Susan, 49, 52–53, 55, 81

Stoddart, Judith, 45–47, 84

Strachey, Lytton, 87–88

subjectivity, 7–12, 29, 39, 173, 199–200, 209, 218n3

in critical theory, 214n8

supplemental mothering, 96–102, 104, 107–108, 118–119

Taylor, Jenny Bourne, 139, 216n6

Tenniel, John, 187, 218n1, 220n10

Thumb, Tom, 58, 127, 182, 213n5

Trent, “Little” Nell, 37, 47–48, 50–64, 73, 76–78, 80, 95, 104–108, 184–185, 192, 213n6

Tromp, Marlene, 29–30, 35

Trotwood, Betsy, 102–104, 145

Vanstone, Magdalen, 138–145, 147–150, 152–155, 158, 160, 163, 166, 179, 216n7

Victoria, Queen of England, 25, 27, 87–90, 96, 100–101, 207, 213n1

Vuffin, Mr., 48, 64–67, 70, 80–81, 85

Wakefield, Agnes, 103–104

waxwork. See Jarley, Mrs.

White, Allon, 20, 23–24, 211n6

Wilde, Oscar, 59, 164–165, 218n20

Woloch, Alex, 213n7, 214n7

Wood, Mrs. Henry, 131

Wren, Jenny, 66, 68, 76–85, 137, 143, 213n9