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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... experience the boon of luck . Just as Allworthy adopts a foundling only to find later an heir and a nephew , just as Tom rescues a distressed lady only to realize after- wards that he has fallen in love with her , so too the man of the ...
... experience the boon of luck . Just as Allworthy adopts a foundling only to find later an heir and a nephew , just as Tom rescues a distressed lady only to realize after- wards that he has fallen in love with her , so too the man of the ...
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... Experience , if we do not know God , the reason is not that God is obscure , but rather that He is a blinding light . " 18 Or , as Lady Phi- losophy remarks in The Consolation of Philosophy , distinguishing between the divine and human ...
... Experience , if we do not know God , the reason is not that God is obscure , but rather that He is a blinding light . " 18 Or , as Lady Phi- losophy remarks in The Consolation of Philosophy , distinguishing between the divine and human ...
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... experience becomes scientifically verifiable -- an effect whose cause is clear , not hidden as in the classical - Christian idea of won- der . Although it tried in many ways to accommodate the Natural and the Marvellous , the eighteenth ...
... experience becomes scientifically verifiable -- an effect whose cause is clear , not hidden as in the classical - Christian idea of won- der . Although it tried in many ways to accommodate the Natural and the Marvellous , the eighteenth ...
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ART AS THE ABILITY TO CONCEAL | 1 |
NATURE AND FORTUNE AS INTELLI | 55 |
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