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"Linking the freak show to the avant-garde, Robin Blyn offers a fresh look at authors and artist like Mark Twain, Lon Chaney, Djuna Barnes, Nathanael West, Diane Arbus, and Matthew Barney. This book is a welcome contribution to scholarship on the freak show." —Rachel Adams, Columbia University


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Preface and Acknowledgments

Introduction. Unbecoming Subjects: Freak Shows and the American Avant-garde1. A Curious Education: Mark Twain’s Corporate Persons2. Between Silence and Sound: The Lon Chaney Sensation3. Decadence in the Age of Fascism: Djuna Barnes’s Freak Dandies4. Dada in Hollywood: Nathanael West’s Human Machines5. The Biology of Revolution: Mapping Mutation with Diane ArbusCoda. Barnum & Bailey & Barney: Freak Show at the Guggenheim

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The Freakgarde

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      Publisher: MP - University Of Minnesota Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 11/18/2013 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780816678174, 978-0816678174
      ISBN10: 0816678170

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      Book Synopsis


      Trade Review
      "Linking the freak show to the avant-garde, Robin Blyn offers a fresh look at authors and artist like Mark Twain, Lon Chaney, Djuna Barnes, Nathanael West, Diane Arbus, and Matthew Barney. This book is a welcome contribution to scholarship on the freak show." —Rachel Adams, Columbia University


      Table of Contents

      Contents

      Preface and Acknowledgments

      Introduction. Unbecoming Subjects: Freak Shows and the American Avant-garde1. A Curious Education: Mark Twain’s Corporate Persons2. Between Silence and Sound: The Lon Chaney Sensation3. Decadence in the Age of Fascism: Djuna Barnes’s Freak Dandies4. Dada in Hollywood: Nathanael West’s Human Machines5. The Biology of Revolution: Mapping Mutation with Diane ArbusCoda. Barnum & Bailey & Barney: Freak Show at the Guggenheim

      NotesBibliographyIndex

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