Surprise : the poetics of the unexpected from Milton to Austen /

Main Author: Miller, Christopher R., 1968- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=11052037
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505 0 |a 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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