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

LIBRA PR448.S87 M55 2015
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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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