Miniature and the English Imagination —— Literature, Cognition, And Small-scale Culture 1650–1765

----- 微型和英国人的想象力：文学、认知和小规模文化

ISBN: 9781108643092 出版年：2019 页码：256 Melinda Alliker Rabb Cambridge University Press

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.