Bibliograph

The miniaturists, Barbara Browning

Type

Label

The miniaturists, Barbara Browning

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

essays

Main title

The miniaturists

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1296117615

Responsibility statement

Barbara Browning

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

Table Of 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

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