Deborah Needleman Armintor: 1 book
The Little Everyman
Stature and Masculinity in Eighteenth-Century English Literature
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Eighteenth-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...
