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The Miniaturists
Engelsk Paperback
The Miniaturists
Engelsk Paperback

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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.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
277
ISBN-13:
9781478018919
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1478018917
Udg. Dato:
18 okt 2022
Længde:
15mm
Bredde:
177mm
Højde:
127mm
Forlag:
Duke University Press
Oplagsdato:
18 okt 2022
Forfatter(e):
Kategori sammenhænge