The Marvellous in Fielding's NovelsUniversity Press of America, 1981 - 235 pages The first full length work to explore in depth Fielding's concept of wonder and the marvellous. Argues that Fielding defended the classical Christian ideas of wonder) wonder as the beginning of Philosophy) in an age that reduced wonder to vulgar astonishment at the grotesque, the old, and the curious (what Fielding calls 'the monstrous'). |
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... Marvellous " in Tom Jones ( p . 332 , Bk . VIII , ch . i ) . Fielding contends that it is a duty of the writer to keep " within the bounds of possi- bility " and hence exclude all spectacular deus ex machina . He cites the precept of ...
... Marvellous " in Tom Jones ( p . 332 , Bk . VIII , ch . i ) . Fielding contends that it is a duty of the writer to keep " within the bounds of possi- bility " and hence exclude all spectacular deus ex machina . He cites the precept of ...
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... Marvellous or surprising dwelling amidst the natural or probable . Even the most marvellous event in Joseph Andrews , Wilson's discovery of his lost son , allows for an explanation through natu- ral causes . Wilson finds a lost son whom ...
... Marvellous or surprising dwelling amidst the natural or probable . Even the most marvellous event in Joseph Andrews , Wilson's discovery of his lost son , allows for an explanation through natu- ral causes . Wilson finds a lost son whom ...
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... Marvellous . Essen- tially , the Sublime as an eighteenth century ver- sion of the Wonderful was an attempt to reinstate and dignify the Marvellous during a time when the idea suffered a loss of repute as a result of the new science ...
... Marvellous . Essen- tially , the Sublime as an eighteenth century ver- sion of the Wonderful was an attempt to reinstate and dignify the Marvellous during a time when the idea suffered a loss of repute as a result of the new science ...
Contents
ART AS THE ABILITY TO CONCEAL | 1 |
NATURE AND FORTUNE AS INTELLI | 55 |
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