Cover -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Unbecoming Subjects: Freak Shows and the American Avant-garde -- 1 A Curious Education: Mark Twain's Corporate Persons -- 2 Between Silence and Sound: The Lon Chaney Sensation -- 3 Decadence in the Age of Fascism: Djuna Barnes's Freak Dandies -- 4 Dada in Hollywood: Nathanael West's Human Machines -- 5 The Biology of Revolution: Mapping Mutation with Diane Arbus -- Coda. Barnum & Bailey & Barney: Freak Show at the Guggenheim -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.