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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... divine Providence , as another species of the Marvellous , as God's intervention in history . A number of well - known scholarly works all comment on how the rise of the new science and the theory of progress in the age of reason led to ...
... divine Providence , as another species of the Marvellous , as God's intervention in history . A number of well - known scholarly works all comment on how the rise of the new science and the theory of progress in the age of reason led to ...
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... divine rationale for the vicissitudes of Fortune , despite man's inabil- ity to see God's plan : for as we know not future events so neither can we tell to what purpose any accident tends ; · · for as we know not to what purpose any ...
... divine rationale for the vicissitudes of Fortune , despite man's inabil- ity to see God's plan : for as we know not future events so neither can we tell to what purpose any accident tends ; · · for as we know not to what purpose any ...
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... divine matters , they reduce the art of God's gov- ernment to a perfect science -- as if they had un- locked the secrets of God's incomprehensibility in the same way that Newton uncovered the hidden laws of Nature . However , in ...
... divine matters , they reduce the art of God's gov- ernment to a perfect science -- as if they had un- locked the secrets of God's incomprehensibility in the same way that Newton uncovered the hidden laws of Nature . However , in ...
Contents
ART AS THE ABILITY TO CONCEAL | 1 |
NATURE AND FORTUNE AS INTELLI | 55 |
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Copyright | |
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