Stature and Masculinity in Eighteenth-Century English Literature
by
Deborah Needleman Armintor
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...