The little everyman : stature and masculinity in eighteenth-century English literature / by Deborah Needleman Armintor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Armintor, Deborah Needleman.

Series:

Literary conjugations

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--18th century--History and criticism.

English literature.

Masculinity in literature.

Stature, Short--Social aspects--England.

Stature, Short.

Short men--England.

Short men.

Stature, Short--Social aspects.

England.

Physical Description:

xvi, 183 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2011]

Summary:

From the publications of janathan Swit's Gullivers Travels in 1726 to Inself Bornwlaski's Memories of the celebrated Dwarf in 1788, eighteenth feeling English litereatured art,science, and popular culture exhibited an unpreceedented fiscination with small male bodies of various kinds. Henry Fielding's Tom Thumbal plave drew packed crows, while public exhibitions advertised male dwarfs as paragons of English mass culture Bawdv popular poems featrured diminutive men paired with enowomwn while a matter is scientist arthropomophized and genderked the minute borders they observed under their fashionable new packet micrascopes, Little men both real and mined embodied the nxieties of a newly bourgeois English culture and were frame changing concerns about the status of English masculimitive in the modern era.

The Little Everyman explores this strange trend by tracking the history of trajency of the pre-modern court dwaff's supplanting the 700's by a the historical quit essentially modern "little man " who came to represent in mature the historical shift in literary production from risto ratre patronage to the bourgeors feelatee authorship Armintor's astute close reading of Pope, Fieldings,Switz and sterm mighlight little recognized aspects of some of the classic works and writers of the perino while temorship show, over the course of single century the little man became an everyman life vering in current cross-disciplinary discussions of literature and art, the history of science extraordinary bodies and disability and eighteenth-century literary and culturals studies Arnintoer makes a major and disability, and eighteenth of how questiors of masculimity and gender, the sociology of marriage and the economics of commodies captalism comerge in cential literary works of the english eighteenth century. Book jacket.

Contents:

A visual prehistory

The dwarfing of little-man Pope

The little man: microscope in Brobdingnag

The labor of little men

The little man of feeling

Josef Boruwl Aski's memoirs

Of the celebrated dwarf.

Notes:

"A McLellan Book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780295990873

0295990872

9780295990880

0295990880

OCLC:

682897073