Big and Small: A Cultural History of Extraordinary Bodies
Lynne Vallone • Yale University Press • ISBN-13 978‑0300231717
Big and Small: A Cultural History of Extraordinary Bodies
Lynne Vallone • Yale University Press
ISBN-10: 0300231717 · ISBN-13: 978‑0300231717 · 2017
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Lynne Vallone examines the cultural significance of human scale, tracing how the binary of giants and dwarfs has shaped Western perceptions of the body from the early modern period to the present.
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