The Little Everyman - 9780295990880
The Little Everyman\nPlease note: \nthis item is printed on demand and will take extra time before it can be dispatched to you (up to 20 working days).\n\nStature and Masculinity in Eighteenth-Century English Literature\nAuthor(s): Deborah Needleman Armintor\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Washington Press, United States\nImprint: University of Washington Press\nISBN-13: 9780295990880, 978-0295990880\nSynopsis\nEighteenth-century English literature, art, science, and popular culture exhibited an unprecedented fascination with small male bodies of various kinds. Henry Fielding's Tom Thumb plays drew packed crowds, while public exhibitions advertised male dwarfs as paragons of English masculinity. Bawdy popular poems featured diminutive men paired with enormous women, and amateur scientists anthropomorphized and gendered the \""minute bodies\"" they observed under their fashionable new pocket microscopes. Little men, both real and imagined, embodied the anxieties of a newly ""
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