Neo-Victorian Cultural Collections of Disability: Interdisciplinary Interventions

Acknowledgements
Contents
Abbreviations
Chapter 1: Introduction
	Museums, Neo-Victorianism, and Visual Text: Exploring the Disciplines
	Neo-Victorianism, Disability, and the Nineteenth-Century Freak Show
	Critical Disability Studies: Neo-Victorian Intersections
	Chapter Outline
	References
Chapter 2: Visual Art, Disability, and Museum Culture in Neo-Victorianism
	Neo-Victorianism and Visual Art
	The Exhibitionary Impulse and the Politics of Looking
	Neo-Victorianism, Museums, and Colonial/Disability Legacies
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 3: Alternative Archives: Approaching Museum Collections Through Neo-Victorian Fiction
	Critical Contexts and Theories of the Archive
	The Wellcome Collection and the National Fairground and Circus Archive
	Recreating, Replicating, Reinventing: The Freak Show Archive in Fiction
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 4: Behind the Vitrine Glass: Revisiting Approaches to the Textual and Material Display of Sarah Baartman and Julia Pastrana
	Human Remains and Economic Wealth
	Purchasing Human Remains and the Black Market
	Acquiring Histories, Gifting Legacies
	The Politics of Material Repatriation and Textual Compensation
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 5: ‘Monster Men’ and the Ethics of Display: The Afterlife of Charles Byrne, ‘The Irish Giant’
	Museological Narratives, the Curator Biographer, and Textual Intervention
	Allegory and the Symbolic Body in Museum Discourse and Fiction
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 6: The Case of Joseph Merrick: Fictionalising Disability in the Museum Space
	Deviance and Disability: The Hat and Veil
	(Re)dressing Merrick: The Carte De Visite and Dressing Bag
	“I Did Not Begin to Build at First”: Merrick’s Model Church
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 7: ‘In Full Voice’: Narrating the Giant Female Body in Heritage Practices
	Representing Nation: Susan Swan and Stacy Carlson’s Fiction
	Reclaiming Anna Swan: Narratives of Community at the Anna Swan Museum
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 8: Afterword
	Tracking Merrick: Geo-politics and Museum Design
	Merrick’s Life Story: ‘Well-Trodden Paths’
	The Politics of Sensory Revisionism, Voice, and Perspective
	References
Index