Lifting the Curtain on the Freak Show, Circus and Victorian Age
Lifting the Curtain on the Freak Show, Circus and Victorian Age
The Victorian freak show and circus and the remarkable cast of characters associated with this world provide a slant on the period putting across a sense of the era as being characterised by many of the cultural problems (fast celebrity, 'alternative facts') that define the present
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The untold story of the Victorian freak show and circus, and the remarkable cast of characters who performed in them. The book will chart some of the great transformations of the age: the birth of celebrity, of showbusiness, of advertising, of 'alternative facts'.
