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Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 Der Inhalt 1.1 Introduction: From Wonder to Error—A Genealogy of Freaks 1.2 I. The Cultural Construction of Freaks 1.2.1 The social Construction of Freaks 1.2.2 The "Careers" of People Exhibited in Freak Shows: The Problem of Volition and Valorization 1.2.3 Intolerable Ambiguity: Freaks as/at the Limit 1.3 II. Practices of Enfreakment 1.3.1 Monsters in the Marketplace: The Exhibition of Human Oddities in Early Modern England 1.3.2 Death-Defying/Defining Spectacles: Charles Willson Peale as Early American Freak Showman 1.3.3 P.T. Barnum's Theatrical Selfhood and the Nineteenth-Century Culture of Exhibition 1.3.4 Social Order and Psychological Disorder: Laughing Gas Demonstrations, 1800-1950 1.3.5 Photography and Persuasion: Farm Security Administration Photographs of Circus and Carnival Sideshows, 1935-1942 1.4 III. Exhibiting Corporeal Freaks 1.4.1 Of Men, Missing Links, and Nondescripts: The Strange Career of P. T. Barnum's "What isIt?" Exhibition 1.4.2 Aztecs, Aborigines, and Ape-People: Science and Freaks in Germany, 1850-1900 1.4.3 The "Exceptions That Prove the Rule": Daisy and Violet Hilton, the "New Woman", and the Bonds of Marriage 1.4.4 Cuteness and Commodity Aesthetics: Tom Thumb and Shirley Temple 1.5 IV. Exhibiting Cultural Freaks 1.5.1 Ethnological Show Business: Footlighting the Dark Continent 1.5.2 Ogling Igorots: The Politics and Commerce of Exhibiting Cultural Otherness, 1898-1913 1.5.3 "What an object he would have made of me!": Tattooing and the Racial Freak in Melville's Typee 1.5.4 The Circassian Beauty and the Circassian Slave: Gender, Imperialism, and American Popular Entertainment 1.6 V. Textual Uses of Freaks 1.6.1 "One of Us": Tod Browning's Freaks 1.6.2 An American Tail: Freaks, Gender, and the Incorporation of History in Katherine Dunn's Geek Love 1.6.3 Freaking Feminism: The Life and Loves of a She-Devil and Nights at the Circus as Narrative Freak Shows 1.6.4 Teaching Freaks 1.7 VI. Relocations of the Freak Show 1.7.1 The Dime Museum Freak Show Reconfigured as Talk Show 1.7.2 Freaks in Space: "Extraterrestrialism" and "Deep-Space-Multiculturalism" 1.7.3 Being Humaned: Medical Documentaries and the Hyperrealization of Conjoined Twins 1.7.4 Bodybuilding: A Postmodern Freak Show 1.7.5 The Celebrity Freak: Michael Jackson's "Grotesque Glory"

Der Inhalt

• List of Illustrations
• Leslie A. Fiedler: Foreword
• Preface and Acknowledgments
• Contributors / Index

Introduction: From Wonder to Error—A Genealogy of Freaks

• AU: Rosemarie Garland Thomson

I. The Cultural Construction of Freaks

The social Construction of Freaks

• AU: Robert Bogdan

The "Careers" of People Exhibited in Freak Shows: The Problem of Volition and Valorization

• AU: David A. Gerber

Intolerable Ambiguity: Freaks as/at the Limit

• AU: Elizabeth Grosz

II. Practices of Enfreakment

Monsters in the Marketplace: The Exhibition of Human Oddities in Early Modern England

• AU: Paul Semonin

Death-Defying/Defining Spectacles: Charles Willson Peale as Early American Freak Showman

• AU: Edward L. Schwarzschild

P.T. Barnum's Theatrical Selfhood and the Nineteenth-Century Culture of Exhibition

• AU: Eric Fretz

Social Order and Psychological Disorder: Laughing Gas Demonstrations, 1800-1950

• AU: Ellen Hickey Grayson

Photography and Persuasion: Farm Security Administration Photographs of Circus and Carnival Sideshows, 1935-1942

• AU: Ronald E. Ostman

III. Exhibiting Corporeal Freaks

Of Men, Missing Links, and Nondescripts: The Strange Career of P. T. Barnum's "What isIt?" Exhibition

• AU: James W. Cook, jr.

Aztecs, Aborigines, and Ape-People: Science and Freaks in Germany, 1850-1900

• AU: Nigel Rothfels

The "Exceptions That Prove the Rule": Daisy and Violet Hilton, the "New Woman", and the Bonds of Marriage

• AU: Allison Pingree

Cuteness and Commodity Aesthetics: Tom Thumb and Shirley Temple

• AU: Lori Merish

IV. Exhibiting Cultural Freaks

Ethnological Show Business: Footlighting the Dark Continent

• AU: Bernth Lindfors

Ogling Igorots: The Politics and Commerce of Exhibiting Cultural Otherness, 1898-1913

• AU: Christopher A. Vaughan

"What an object he would have made of me!": Tattooing and the Racial Freak in Melville's Typee

• AU: Leonard Cassuto

The Circassian Beauty and the Circassian Slave: Gender, Imperialism, and American Popular Entertainment

• AU: Linda Frost

V. Textual Uses of Freaks

"One of Us": Tod Browning's Freaks

• AU: Joan Hawkins

An American Tail: Freaks, Gender, and the Incorporation of History in Katherine Dunn's Geek Love

• AU: Rachel Adams

Freaking Feminism: The Life and Loves of a She-Devil and Nights at the Circus as Narrative Freak Shows

• AU: Shirley Peterson

Teaching Freaks

• AU: Brian rosenberg

VI. Relocations of the Freak Show

The Dime Museum Freak Show Reconfigured as Talk Show

• AU: Andrea Stulman Dennett

Freaks in Space: "Extraterrestrialism" and "Deep-Space-Multiculturalism"

• AU: Jeffrey A. Weinstock

Being Humaned: Medical Documentaries and the Hyperrealization of Conjoined Twins

• AU: David L. Clark / Catherine Myser

Bodybuilding: A Postmodern Freak Show

• AU: Cecile Lindsay

The Celebrity Freak: Michael Jackson's "Grotesque Glory"

• AU: David D. Yuan