Melinda Alliker Rabb (Rhode Island Brown University)

Miniature and the English Imagination

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Produktbeschreibung

Examining the phenomenon of miniaturization in material culture, literature and theories of cognition, this study examines the appeal and function of the small in the period from 1660 to 1765. Examining two kinds of miniatures - real and imaginary - it provides a rethinking of major and minor writers.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. März 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 380g
• ISBN-13: 9781108444286
• ISBN-10: 1108444288
• Artikelnr.: 60712525

Autorenporträt

Melinda Alliker Rabb is Professor of English at Brown University, Rhode Island. She is author of Satire and Secrecy in English Literature From 1650-1750 (2007), as well as articles and chapters on a wide range of eighteenth-century topics and writers.

Inhaltsangabe

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.