Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction 1
4. Part One. Big People and Little People: Two Cases of Disproportion
5. 1. Rabelais and Mannerism 23
6. 2. Swift and Commensuratio 36
7. Part Two. Pathologies of Deformation: Jonson, Sade, Pynchon
8. 3. Narcissism: Jonson and the Disfigured Self 55
9. 4. Sade and the Deformed Body 69
10. 5. Hysteria: Pynchon’s Cartoon Space 84
11. Part Three. Back to the Future: From Picasso to Aristotle
12. 6. Modernism and Mannerism 107
13. 7. Space and Time for the Ancients 130
14. Notes 147
15. Bibliography 167
16. Index 179