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Table of Contents
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Acknowledgments |
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Abbreviations |
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Introduction: Physical Difference and the Nineteenth Century |
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Theorizing Physical Difference |
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Traditions of Bodily Spectacle |
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Chapter 1: Littleness in the Novels of Charles Dickens |
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A Sentimental Social Critic |
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Showman, Collector, Author |
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Miniatures and Monsters |
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Exploiting the Dwarf-Child |
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The Authority of Small Size |
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Chapter 2: The Widest Lap: Fatness and Nurturance in Nineteenth-Century Fiction |
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Fat People and Fasting Girls |
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Dickens's Supplemental Nurturers |
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Why Fat? A Broader View |
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Fat Sexuality in Maupassant's “Boule de Suif” |
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Chapter 3: Female Masculinity in Sensational Fiction, 1860–1890 |
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Sensationalism and the Gender Debate |
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Making a Place for the Masculine Woman: Marian Halcombe's Happy Ending |