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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... eighteenth - century conception of orig- inality . These eighteenth - century phenomena con- tradict the perennial view of art held by Field- ing . The vainglory of authors who gloat to see their name in print defies the traditional ...
... eighteenth - century conception of orig- inality . These eighteenth - century phenomena con- tradict the perennial view of art held by Field- ing . The vainglory of authors who gloat to see their name in print defies the traditional ...
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... eighteenth century ; it is in fact a remnant of the eighteenth - century anti - Christian movement . . ยท In an era that prized the univocal mind in love with clarity and unity at the sacrifice of mystery and diversity , as seen in ...
... eighteenth century ; it is in fact a remnant of the eighteenth - century anti - Christian movement . . ยท In an era that prized the univocal mind in love with clarity and unity at the sacrifice of mystery and diversity , as seen in ...
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Mitchell Kalpakgian. CHAPTER V CONCLUSION : FIELDING'S MARVELLOUS AND THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY SUBLIME The classical - Christian idea of the Wonderful underwent a transformation during the eighteenth century . The theories of the sublime ...
Mitchell Kalpakgian. CHAPTER V CONCLUSION : FIELDING'S MARVELLOUS AND THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY SUBLIME The classical - Christian idea of the Wonderful underwent a transformation during the eighteenth century . The theories of the sublime ...
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ART AS THE ABILITY TO CONCEAL | 1 |
NATURE AND FORTUNE AS INTELLI | 55 |
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