The Routledge Circus Studies Reader offers an absorbing critical introduction to this diverse and emerging field. It brings together the work of over 30 scholar

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This pioneering study is one of the major publications in the increasingly popular and largely undocumented area of circus studies. Through photographs and illu

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This book explores the circus as a site in and through which science and technology are represented in popular culture. Across eight chapters written by leading