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Surprise : the poetics of the unexpected from Milton to Austen / Christopher R. Miller.
LIBRA PR448.S87 M55 2015
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Miller, Christopher R., 1968- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Surprise in literature.
- English literature--18th century--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 269 pages ; 25 cm
- Other Title:
- Poetics of the unexpected from Milton to Austen
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca ; London : Cornell University, 2015.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780801453694
- 0801453690
- OCLC:
- 889666444
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