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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... explains the fullness of the universe , not as the effect of di- vine providence or God's love as in Paradise Lost , but as a consequence of cosmic determinism . As A. 0. Lovejoy explains : all things follow ex necessitate divinae ...
... explains the fullness of the universe , not as the effect of di- vine providence or God's love as in Paradise Lost , but as a consequence of cosmic determinism . As A. 0. Lovejoy explains : all things follow ex necessitate divinae ...
Page 103
... explains the term good - nature in one of the papers of The Champion , he compares it to the Greek notion of gilavepwπia and to the Roman ideals of comitas , benignitas , benevolentia , and humanitas : " Indeed , the an- cients seem to ...
... explains the term good - nature in one of the papers of The Champion , he compares it to the Greek notion of gilavepwπia and to the Roman ideals of comitas , benignitas , benevolentia , and humanitas : " Indeed , the an- cients seem to ...
Page 173
... explain the problem of evil and suffering , Heartfree , in this long soliloquy , shifts from Stoic to mystic to deist ... explains in her non sequitur , is that " PROVIDENCE WILL SOONER OR LATER PROCURE THE FELICITY OF THE VIRTUOUS AND ...
... explain the problem of evil and suffering , Heartfree , in this long soliloquy , shifts from Stoic to mystic to deist ... explains in her non sequitur , is that " PROVIDENCE WILL SOONER OR LATER PROCURE THE FELICITY OF THE VIRTUOUS AND ...
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ART AS THE ABILITY TO CONCEAL | 1 |
NATURE AND FORTUNE AS INTELLI | 55 |
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