The Victorian Freak Show:  The Significance of Disability and Physical Differences in 19th-Century Fiction
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Re-Reading the Body for Disguise and Detection

136

Female Adventure of the 1880s and the New Woman

146

Cross-Dressing and the New Woman

155

Ethnic Hybridity and Cultural Revision

160

Chapter 4: The Mutable Body and the Looking Glass

169

A GROWING (and shrinking) Girl

172

Alice Outgrows Victorian Girlhood

184

Victorian Visualization

196

Conclusion: Reflecting on the Odd Body

205

Notes

211

Works Cited

223

Index

241