Miniature and the English Imagination: Literature, Cognition, and Small-Scale Culture, 1650-1765

ISBN-13: 9781108444286 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 253 str.

Melinda Alliker Rabb

Opis

Examines the practice and purposes of presenting the small-scale in literature, material culture and theories of cognition.

Recenzje

'This is a deft, incisive book that produces rich new interpretations of texts, and I recommend it …' Nicholas Seager, MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW

Spis treści

1. Introduction to an age of small-scale; 2. Swift and miniature: Cogito ergo Gulliver; 3. Lilliput recalibrated: Johnson and others; 4. Toying with thought: Pope, Gay, Dodsley; 5. War in miniature: models, maps, medals, and Sterne's Tristram Shandy; 6. Science and miniature: animal rationis capax and homo depictor; Coda: 'the last extreme of littleness': miniature and the postmodern imagination; Bibliography.