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The miniaturists
Title
The miniaturists / Barbara Browning.
ISBN
1478023546
9781478023548
9781478016274
1478016272
9781478018919
1478018917
Publication
Durham : Duke University Press, 2022.
Copyright Notice Date
©2022
Physical Description
1 online resource (221 pages) : illustrations
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 20, 2022).
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Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
"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, and even cosmic, realities"-- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
e-Duke books scholarly collection 2022. OCLC KB.
Other formats
Print version: Browning, Barbara, 1961- Miniaturists Durham : Duke University Press, 2022
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 03, 2023
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Foibles of Insects and Men
The Mother of Forensic Science
Dilation and Contraction
Suite for Toy Piano
Gulliver Phantasies
The Handwriting on the Wall
Lead Paint and Other Poisons
That Which Is More Proportionable to the Smallness of My Abilities.
Genre/Form
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Literary criticism.
Literary criticism.
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