Surprise: The Poetics Of The Unexpected From Milton To Austen

Christopher R. Miller studies the shift in the cultural meaning of "surprise" in 18th-century England from connoting violent attack to encompassing pleasurable experience, and from external event to internal feeling.

• | Author: Christopher R. Miller
• | Publisher: Cornell University Press
• | Publication Date: Apr 10, 2015
• | Number of Pages: 280 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0801453690
• | ISBN-13: 9780801453694