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Big & small : a cultural history of extraordinary bodies
- Title
- Big & small : a cultural history of extraordinary bodies / Lynne Vallone.
- Author
- Vallone, Lynne
- Publication
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2017]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 18- 539 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- xv, 339 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 23 cm
- Alternative Title
- Big and small : a cultural history of extraordinary bodies
- Subjects
- Contents
- Introduction: people big and people small -- Introduction: the little man -- In the beginning was Tom Thumb -- The dwarf in high and popular culture -- Staging the dwarf -- Lilliputians in blackface -- The monstrous giant -- Gigantic mechanical Boy Scouts -- The obese girl -- Afterword: the human measure.
- Call Number
- JFD 18- 539
- ISBN
- 9780300228861
- 0300228864
- LCCN
- 2017015277
- OCLC
- 2017015277
- Author
- Vallone, Lynne, author.
- Title
- Big & small : a cultural history of extraordinary bodies / Lynne Vallone.
- Publisher
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2017]
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Research Call Number
- JFD 18- 539