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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... concept ' I am the doer ' " ? or the Bud- dhist , for whom it has been said that " To wish that it may be made known that ' I was the author ' is the thought of a man not yet adult " ? --Ananda Coomaraswamy Christian and Oriental ...
... concept ' I am the doer ' " ? or the Bud- dhist , for whom it has been said that " To wish that it may be made known that ' I was the author ' is the thought of a man not yet adult " ? --Ananda Coomaraswamy Christian and Oriental ...
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... definition of novel as " unusual " in his Dictionary ) seen in travel books that deal in the Monstrous opposes the Aristote- lian concept of " general nature " ( " What oft was thought " ) shared by the classical minds of the 19.
... definition of novel as " unusual " in his Dictionary ) seen in travel books that deal in the Monstrous opposes the Aristote- lian concept of " general nature " ( " What oft was thought " ) shared by the classical minds of the 19.
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... concept of good - nature relates to the Greco - Roman idea of natural law and to Christian agape ; it is not a version of Shaftes- bury's benevolism . As Fielding explains the term good - nature in one of the papers of The Champion , he ...
... concept of good - nature relates to the Greco - Roman idea of natural law and to Christian agape ; it is not a version of Shaftes- bury's benevolism . As Fielding explains the term good - nature in one of the papers of The Champion , he ...
Contents
ART AS THE ABILITY TO CONCEAL | 1 |
NATURE AND FORTUNE AS INTELLI | 55 |
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