Big and small : a cultural history of extraordinary bodies / Lynne Vallone.
A groundbreaking work that explores human size as a distinctive cultural marker in Western thought Author, scholar, and editor Lynne Vallone has an international reputation in the field of child studies. In this analytical tour-de-force, she explores bodily size difference-particularly unusual bodie...
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[2017]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: People big and people small
- Part I. Small bodies. Introduction: The little man ; 1. In the beginning was Tom Thumb ; 2. The dwarf in high and popular culture ; 3. Staging the dwarf ; 4. Lilliputians in blackface
- Part II. Big bodies. Introduction: The monstrous giant ; 5. Gigantic mechanical Boy Scouts ; 6. The obese girl
- Afterword: The human measure.