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

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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca ;, London : : Cornell University,, 2015.
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (280 pages)
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Table of 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.