Exploring the cultural history of continental European freak shows and 'enfreakment' / edited by Anna Kérchy and Andrea Zittlau.

Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012.

vi, 291 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Leprous bodies and abject charity / Kamillea Aghtan -- Missionaries, monsters, and the demon show : diabolized representations of American Indians in the Jesuit libraries of seventeenth and eighteenth century upper Hungary / Ildikó Sz. Kristóf -- Frontier girl goes feral in eighteenth century France : the curious case of Marie-Angélique Memmie Le Blanc, the wild girl of Champagne / Susan Small -- The Diderot freak show : the monster laboratory in D'Alembert's dream / Dóra Székesi -- Spectacular medical freakery : British "translations" of nineteenth century European teratology / Ally Crockford -- Monstrous bodies in Rudolf Virchow's medical collection in nineteenth-century Germany / Birgit Stammberger -- Enfreakment and German medical collections / Andrea Zittlau -- Normalizing bodily difference in autobiographical narratives of the Central European armless wonders Carl Hermann Unthan and František Filip / Lucie Storchová -- "Tiny artists from the big world" : the rhetoric of representing extraordinary bodies during the singer midgets' 1928 tour in Prague / Filip Herza -- From the showbiz to the concentration camp : the fabulous, freakish life of Hungarian Jewish dwarf performers Zoli Hirsch and the Ovitz family / Anna Kérchy -- The freaks of Chernobyl : fantasies of nuclear mutants in (post)Soviet society / Eugenia Kuznetsova -- On grace and disability : personal and philosophical reflections on a marionette theatre project by disabled youth in post-Soviet Russia /Krisztián Benkő -- Longing for Endor : little people and the ideological colonization of the European fantasy genre / Catriona McAra.

Includes bibliographical references and index.