Author: Graham, Peter W., and Fritz H. Oehlschlaeger.
Title: Articulating the Elephant Man. Joseph Merrick and his interpreters.
Description: Baltimore/London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992 (1st ed.); ix+212pp., index, bibliography, end-notes, 8vo, grey cloth w. gilt lettering on spine, dustwrapper. V. good copy. ¶ Joseph Merrick was the famous 'Elephant Man' of Victorian England who not only was a medical case study, but also inspiration for films, plays, novels, etc. Merrick's 'presenters' have been "a varied group of artists, medical experts, scholars and biographers. But preceding them all is Merrick himself, no mere passive sufferer but an individual who bravely endured - and, when he had to, successfully exploited - his ourageous bodily disorder." (from the blurb) There are no illustrations in this book.

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