Publication at Faculty of Humanities |
2014
Abstract
Commercial exhibitions of the bodily "difference", which markedly designated the face of the late 19th Century popular culture, pose one of the most challenging issues in the current culture history debates. Critical accounts on particular cases of famous freak performers and the institutions involved in the exhibiting culture of the time enable us to observe various local adaptations of globally successful model of popular entertainment and at the same time offer a new perspective on the social and political history of the late 19th and early 20th Century.