Freak Shows and the Modern American Imagination: Constructing the Damaged Body from Willa Cather to Truman Capote by Thomas Fahy
Freak Shows and the Modern American Imagination: Constructing the Damaged Body from Willa Cather to Truman Capote
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Thomas Fahy
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Freak Shows and the Modern American Imagination: Constructing the Damaged Body from Willa Cather to Truman Capote

American Literature Readings in the 21st Century

Thomas Fahy

202 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction classics history literary dark medium-paced
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This book examines the artistic use of freak shows between 1900-1950. During this period, the freak show shifted from a highly popular and profitable form of entertainment to a reviled one. But why? And how does this response reflect larger social...

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