Big & small a cultural history of extraordinary bodies / [Texte imprimé] :
Lynne Vallone
- New Haven : Yale University Press, cop. 2017
- 1 vol. (339 p.-[16] p. de pl) : ill. ; 23 cm
Bibliogr. p. [316]-329
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