Neo-Victorian Freakery

Helen Davies is Senior Lecturer in English Studies at Teesside University, UK. She is the author of Gender and Ventriloquism in Victorian and Neo-Victorian Fiction: Passionate Puppets (2012), and has published widely on gender and sexuality in Victorian and neo-Victorian literature.  

Introduction: Distorted images and re-membered bodies: Constructing Neo-Victorian Freakery 1. Mixing (re)memory and desire: Constructing Sarah Baartman 2. Separation Anxieties: Sex, Death, and Chang and Eng Bunker 3. Excessively feminine? Anna Swan, gendering giantesses, and the genre of the 'true life story' pamphlet 4. Innocence, experience, and childhood dramas: Charles Stratton and Lavinia Warren 5. The Strange Case of Joseph and Jack: Joseph Merrick and spectacles of deviance Notes Bibliography Index