Surprise : : The Poetics of the Unexpected from Milton to Austen / / Christopher R. Miller.
Today, in the era of the spoiler alert, "surprise" in fiction is primarily associated with an unexpected plot twist, but in earlier usage, the word had darker and more complex meanings. Originally denoting a military ambush or physical assault, surprise went through a major semantic shift...
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| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. From Aristotle to Emotion Theory
- 2. Being and Feeling: The Surprise Attacks of Paradise Lost
- 3. The Accidental Doctor: Physics and Metaphysics in Robinson Crusoe
- 4. The Purification of Surprise in Pamela
- 5. Fielding's Statues of Surprize
- 6. Northanger Abbey and Gothic Perception: Austen's Aesthetics and Ethics of Surprise
- 7. Wordsworthian Shocks, Gentle and Otherwise
- 8. "Fine Suddenness": Keats's Sense of a Beginning
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Index