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Miniature and the English Imagination: Literature, Cognition, and Small-Scale Culture, 1650-1765.
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| 著者・編者 | Rabb, Melinda Alliker, |
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| 出版社 | (Cambridge University Press, UK) |
| 出版年月 | 2019 |
| ページ数 | 250 pp. |
| 言語 | ENG |
| ニュース番号 | ＜A01-29707＞ |
解説
Focusing 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.