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Surprise : the poetics of the unexpected from Milton to Austen / Christopher R. Miller.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Ithaca ; London : Cornell University, (c)2015.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780801455780
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PR448 .S877 2015
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Contents:
Being and feeling: the surprise attacks of Paradise Lost -- The accidental doctor: physics and metaphysics in Robinson Crusoe -- The purification of surprise in Pamela -- Fielding's statues of surprize -- Northanger Abbey and Gothic perception: Austen's aesthetics and ethics of surprise -- Wordsworthian shocks, gentle and otherwise -- Fine suddenness?: Keats's sense of a beginning.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

From Aristotle to emotion theory -- Being and feeling: the surprise attacks of Paradise Lost -- The accidental doctor: physics and metaphysics in Robinson Crusoe -- The purification of surprise in Pamela -- Fielding's statues of surprize -- Northanger Abbey and Gothic perception: Austen's aesthetics and ethics of surprise -- Wordsworthian shocks, gentle and otherwise -- Fine suddenness?: Keats's sense of a beginning.

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