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Surprise : the poetics of the unexpected from Milton to Austen
- Title
- Surprise : the poetics of the unexpected from Milton to Austen / Christopher R. Miller.
- Author
- Miller, Christopher R., 1968-
- Publication
- Ithaca ; London : Cornell University, 2015.
- ©2015
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Details
- Description
- viii, 269 pages; 25 cm
- Alternative Title
- Poetics of the unexpected from Milton to Austen
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 15-3159
- ISBN
- 9780801453694 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0801453690 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2014030634
- OCLC
- 889666444
- Author
- Miller, Christopher R., 1968- author.
- Title
- Surprise : the poetics of the unexpected from Milton to Austen / Christopher R. Miller.
- Publisher
- Ithaca ; London : Cornell University, 2015.
- Copyright Date
- ©2015
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1700 - 1799
- Research Call Number
- JFE 15-3159