{"product_id":"miniature-and-the-english-imagination-literature-cognition-and-small-scale-culture-1650-1765-paperback-9781108444286","title":"Miniature and the English Imagination; Literature, Cognition, and Small-Scale Culture, 1650–1765 (Paperback \/ softback) 9781108444286","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eMiniature and the English Imagination\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eLiterature, Cognition, and Small-Scale Culture, 1650–1765\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eExamines the practice and purposes of presenting the small-scale in literature, material culture and theories of cognition.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMelinda Alliker Rabb (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781108444286, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 11 March 2021\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e253 pages, 12 b\/w illus.\u003cbr\u003e23 x 15 x 1.5 cm, 0.38 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'This is a deft, incisive book that produces rich new interpretations of texts, and I recommend it …' Nicholas Seager, MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eFocusing on the phenomenon of miniaturization in material culture, literature, and theories of cognition, this study examines the appeal and function of the small-scale during the period from 1650 to 1765. Drawing on three interconnected areas of scholarship, Melinda Alliker Rabb analyzes the human capacity to supplement direct experience of the world through representation, in order to gain knowledge of that world and to attempt control over it. Assessing two kinds of miniature - the real and the imagined - allows rethinking of works by Swift, Pope, Gay, Johnson, Sterne, and others, and shows how the fictional miniature can correspond meaningfully to the world of things. The phenomenon of scaling down objects as various as teapots, bureaus, globes, buckets, spoons, battlefields, and diving bells, has a relationship to large-scale events as various as financial revolution, globalization, scientific discovery, war and other events that challenge old modes of representation and demand new ones.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e1. Introduction to an age of small-scale\u003cbr\u003e 2. Swift and miniature: Cogito ergo Gulliver\u003cbr\u003e 3. Lilliput recalibrated: Johnson and others\u003cbr\u003e 4. Toying with thought: Pope, Gay, Dodsley\u003cbr\u003e 5. War in miniature: models, maps, medals, and Sterne's Tristram Shandy\u003cbr\u003e 6. Science and miniature: animal rationis capax and homo depictor\u003cbr\u003e Coda: 'the last extreme of littleness': miniature and the postmodern imagination\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Material culture [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Material culture\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Material%20culture%20%5BJFCD%5D%22\"\u003eJFCD\u003c\/a\u003e], Literature \u0026amp; literary studies [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literature \u0026amp; literary studies\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literature%20\u0026amp;%20literary%20studies%20%5BD%5D%22\"\u003eD\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46003287294232,"sku":"9781108444286","price":29.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781108444286i_34f1f678-c585-40ca-bcf3-a21aa5654b41.jpg?v=1696700144","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/miniature-and-the-english-imagination-literature-cognition-and-small-scale-culture-1650-1765-paperback-9781108444286","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}