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Author Miller, Christopher R., 1968- author.

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

Publication Info. Ithaca ; London : Cornell University, 2015.
©2015

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Description 1 online resource
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography 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.
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Subject Surprise in literature.
Surprise in literature.
English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
English literature.
Chronological Term 18th century
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Miller, Christopher R., 1968- author. Surprise 9780801453694 (DLC) 2014030634 (OCoLC)889666444
ISBN 9780801455780 electronic book
0801455782 electronic book
9780801453694
0801453690