Vallone, Lynne

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

978-0-300-22886-1

700.4561