Surprise : the poetics of the unexpected from Milton to Austen / Christopher R. Miller.
Publisher: Ithaca ; London : Cornell University, 2015Description: 1 online resource (280 pages)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780801453694 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780801455780 (e-book)
- 820.9/353 23
- PR448.S87 M55 2015eb
eBooks
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.
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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.