The Miniaturists

Barbara Browning (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

232 Seiten

2022
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-1891-9 (ISBN)

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In The Miniaturists Barbara Browning explores her attraction to tininess and the stories of those who share it. Interweaving autobiography with research on unexpected topics and letting her voracious curiosity guide her, Browning offers a series of charming short essays that plumb what it means to ponder the minuscule. She is as entranced by early twentieth-century entomologist William Morton Wheeler, who imagined corresponding with termites, as she is by Frances Glessner Lee, the “mother of forensic science,” who built intricate dollhouses to solve crimes. Whether examining Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, the Schoenhut toy piano dynasty, portrait miniatures, diminutive handwriting, or Jonathan Swift’s and Lewis Carroll’s preoccupation with tiny people, Browning shows how a preoccupation with all things tiny can belie an attempt to grasp vast---even cosmic---realities.

Barbara Browning is Professor of Performance Studies at New York University. Her books include The Gift, I’m Trying to Reach You, and The Correspondence Artist.

Foibles of Insects and Men 1
The Mother of Forensic Science 39
Dilation and Contraction 57
Suite for Toy Piano 81
Gulliver Phantasies 107
The Handwriting on the Wall 135
Lead Paint and Other Poisons 159
That Which Is More Proportionable to the Smallness of My Abilities 185
Works Cited or Obliquely Referenced 211

Erscheinungsdatum	23.09.2022
Zusatzinfo	21 illustrations
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	127 x 178 mm
Gewicht	227 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-4780-1891-7 / 1478018917
ISBN-13	978-1-4780-1891-9 / 9781478018919
Zustand	Neuware