| Review | Journal of Social History, 40.4

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The Circus and Victorian Society. By Brenda Assael (Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2005, xiii plus 237pp.).
The history of circus has been written largely in celebratory mode and by enthusiasts. Brenda Assael breaks free of this approach. Her concern is 'to link the cultural history of the Victorian circus with contemporary politics, religion, economics, and society in the widest possible sense.' (7) To this task she brings the tools of cultural analysis.	. . .

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