Introduction: Physical difference and the nineteenth century -- Littleness in the novels of Charles Dickens -- The widest lap: fatness and nurturance in nineteenth-century fiction -- Female masculinity in sensational fiction, 1860-1890 -- The mutable body and the looking glass -- Conclusion: reflecting on the odd body.
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