The Victorian freak show : the significance of disability and physical differences in 19th-century fiction / Lillian Craton.

Amherst, NY : Cambria Press, [2009], ©2009.

xii, 244 pages ; 24 cm

Introduction: Physical difference and the nineteenth century -- Littleness in the novels of Charles Dickens -- The widest lap: fatness and nurturance in nineteenth-century fiction -- Female masculinity in sensational fiction, 1860-1890 -- The mutable body and the looking glass -- Conclusion: reflecting on the odd body.

Includes bibliographical references and index.