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A staple of American popular culture during the 19th and early 20th centuries, the freak show seemed to vanish after World War II. However, as this book reveals, images of the freak show, with its combination of the grotesque, horrific and amusing, stubbornly reappeared in literature and the arts.

Sideshow U.S.A. Freaks and the American Cultural

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    A Paperback / softback by Rachel Adams

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: 01/12/2001
      ISBN13: 9780226005393, 978-0226005393
      ISBN10: 0226005399

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A staple of American popular culture during the 19th and early 20th centuries, the freak show seemed to vanish after World War II. However, as this book reveals, images of the freak show, with its combination of the grotesque, horrific and amusing, stubbornly reappeared in literature and the arts.

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