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Leslie A. Fiedler, a literary critic, was a professor of English at the State University of New York, at Buffalo.

Leslie A. His well-known preoccupation with social and psychological issues emerged with Love and Death in the American Novel (1960), which became a major critical text of the 1960s. In this book he argued that American writing has been shaped by an inability to portray mature sexual relationships and by an underlying fear of death.

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book by Leslie A. Fiedler. From two-headed men and dwarfs to Siamese twins, the phenomenon of the freak has fascinated people for centuries. Medical Medical Books Politics & Social Sciences Psychology Science & Math Self Help Self-Help Self-Help & Psychology. More by Leslie A. Fiedler's largely psychoanalytic history of the exhibition of the "differently abled" {deformed, disabled, grotesque, or freak] provides excellent material for anyone interested in the freak phenomenon. Although dated, this work has a very helpful history of freak shows, containing historical photos.

Fiedler traces the history of the freak from ancient art and folklore to more modern times. I couldn't stop feeding my own and Fiedler's fascination for people who would fall into the "Freaks" category for whatever reason

Fiedler traces the history of the freak from ancient art and folklore to more modern times. Though "its morbidity may shock, its lively intelligence cannot fail to stimulate any serious reader" ( LJ 3/15/78). I couldn't stop feeding my own and Fiedler's fascination for people who would fall into the "Freaks" category for whatever reason. Fiedler, who had an unnatural feeling his whole life that he had a missing twin, had such an obsession with the history and humanity of freaks, he finally had to quench it by writing this book.

By author Leslie Fiedler. From two headed men to seven breasted women, from giants and dwarfs to Siamese twins, the phenomenon of the freak has fascinated man for centuries. In identifying them, Fiedler reveals the semi-religious awe, uneasiness, terror and sympathy that have defined our reactions to the freak in both life and art. Drawing from history, sociology, anthropology, Freudian psychology, biology, literature and popular culture, he presents a masterpiece of interdisciplinary scholarship that shows above all how we perceive the freak as the "other", the dark and unnatural mirror of ourselves.

Freaks: Myths and images of the secret self (A Touchstone book). Coauthors & Alternates. ISBN 9780671225056 (978-0-671-22505-6) Hardcover, Simon and Schuster, 1979. Learn More at LibraryThing. Leslie fiedler at LibraryThing.

The exhibition of freaks, monstrosities or marvels of nature were essential . 6d on the door and a further £48 from the selling of 5000 postcards and 6333 books. Fiedler, Leslie, Freaks: Myths and Images of the Secret Self. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1978.

The exhibition of freaks, monstrosities or marvels of nature were essential components of travelling exhibitions in Europe and America throughout the Victorian period. What was saleable as far as the freak was concerned was, of course, physical difference, in a form that was both marketable and palatable. Other nineteenth century exhibits included Patrick O’Brien the Irish Giant, a regular act at St Bartholomew's Fair and Sam Taylor the Ilkeston Giant.