Description
Book SynopsisMakes a major contribution to our understanding of how questions of masculinity and gender, the sociology of marriage, and the economics of commodity capitalism converge
Trade Review". . . 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 *
Table of ContentsPreface
Acknowledgements
1. A Visual Prehistory
2. The Dwarfing of Little-Man Pope
3. The Little Man-Microscope in Brobdingnag
4. The Labor of Little Men
5. The Little Man of Feeling
6. Josef Boruwlaski's Memoirs of the Celebrated Dwarf
Notes
Bibliography
Index
