Rings of desire : circus history and representation /

Rings of desire : circus history and representation /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Stoddart, Helen.
Imprint:	Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2000.
Description:	x, 209 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Circus -- History. Circus. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4381021

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ISBN:	0719052335 9780719052330 0719052343 9780719052347
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-203) and index.

Table of Contents:

List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
I. Circus: cultural history and aesthetics
1. Origins
2. Structures
3. Economics
4. Legitimacy and status
5. Aesthetics
II. Representing the circus
6. '... crammed with all sorts of dry bones and sawdust': Dickens's disruptive circus
7. Subtle, wasted traces: Fellini and the circus
8. Flights of fantasy: representing the female aerialist
Bibliography
Index