Miniature and the English Imagination: Literature, Cognition, and Small-Scale Culture, 1650–1765
Author:   Melinda Alliker Rabb (Brown University, Rhode Island)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
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9781108444286


Pages:   253
Publication Date:   11 March 2021
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Author:   Melinda Alliker Rabb (Brown University, Rhode Island)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.00cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.00cm
Weight:   0.380kg
ISBN:  

9781108444286


ISBN 10:   1108444288
Pages:   253
Publication Date:   11 March 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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.

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'... the book's analysis of small things within the broader contexts of the early eighteenth century is invaluable ... the book reinforces that although the objects it discusses were physically small, they were rich with meaning, history, and interpretative potential. As such, Rabb's sophisticated interrogation of the relationship between small things and big ideas will be of great use to anyone doing work on objects (and their representations) which, due to aesthetic hierarchies and cultural regimes of value, have long been deemed not only small, but insignificant.' Freya Gowrley, The Review of English Studies


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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.

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