Surprise :
Miller, Christopher R., 1968-
Surprise : the poetics of the unexpected from Milton to Austen / Christopher R. Miller. - 1 online resource (280 pages)
Includes bibliographical references 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.
9780801453694 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780801455780 (e-book)
Surprise in literature.
English literature--History and criticism.--18th century
Electronic books.
PR448.S87 / M55 2015eb
820.9/353
Surprise : the poetics of the unexpected from Milton to Austen / Christopher R. Miller. - 1 online resource (280 pages)
Includes bibliographical references 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.
9780801453694 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780801455780 (e-book)
Surprise in literature.
English literature--History and criticism.--18th century
Electronic books.
PR448.S87 / M55 2015eb
820.9/353