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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Deborah Needleman ArmintorPublisher: University of Washington Press Imprint: University of Washington Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9780295990873ISBN 10: 0295990872 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 01 October 2011 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviews... original, enlightening, and clearly written. Summing Up: Recommended. Choice The Little Everyman offers a chronologically ordered, wide-ranging discussion of the depiction of little men that extends from seventeenth-century ...any reader, from senior undergraduate to scholar of the period, will find much here to think about-little men but big ideas. -- Cameron McFarlane Eighteenth-Century Fiction ... a spirited short book, dealing with a pictorial tradition of dwarfs, big men, and little men in caricature... -- Claude Rawson Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 Armintor mounts an historical argument that dwarfs move from serving as representatives of aristocratic court culture to models of the bourgeois man of feeling that was so prominent in the culture of the end of the century. In the process, she teases out the rich and ambiguous reciprocity between morality and physicality, between power and febrility, between the big and the small, between sexuality and mentality. -Barbara Benedict, Trinity College Author InformationDeborah Needleman Armintor is associate professor of English at the University of North Texas and the co-editor of Eighteenth-Century British Erotica, Vol. 2. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |