{"product_id":"the-freakgarde-9780816678174","title":"The Freakgarde","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface and Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction. Unbecoming Subjects: Freak Shows and the American Avant-garde\u003cb\u003e1. A Curious Education: Mark Twain’s Corporate Persons\u003cb\u003e2. Between Silence and Sound: The Lon Chaney Sensation\u003cb\u003e3. Decadence in the Age of Fascism: Djuna Barnes’s Freak Dandies\u003cb\u003e4. Dada in Hollywood: Nathanael West’s Human Machines\u003cb\u003e5. The Biology of Revolution: Mapping Mutation with Diane Arbus\u003cb\u003eCoda. Barnum \u0026amp; Bailey \u0026amp; Barney: Freak Show at the Guggenheim\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eNotes\u003cb\u003eBibliography\u003cb\u003eIndex\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MP - University Of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51038553375063,"sku":"9780816678174","price":29.17,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780816678174.jpg?v=1750940651","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-freakgarde-9780816678174","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}