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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... harmony , an order based upon the model of music rather than the ideal of mathematics . manners . Thus Fielding's concept of order and Nature was atypical of his age . As Leo Spitzer observes in Classical and Christian Ideas of World ...
... harmony , an order based upon the model of music rather than the ideal of mathematics . manners . Thus Fielding's concept of order and Nature was atypical of his age . As Leo Spitzer observes in Classical and Christian Ideas of World ...
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... harmony , of being in tune with the world -- often a result of the consonance of pru- dence and charity , of reason and will , in human For Fielding sees a harmony or analogy between human nature and Nature , the microcosm and the ...
... harmony , of being in tune with the world -- often a result of the consonance of pru- dence and charity , of reason and will , in human For Fielding sees a harmony or analogy between human nature and Nature , the microcosm and the ...
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... harmony of the one and the many that comprises the art of Nature , the art of God , the art of literature , and the art of living -- art which is sublime , not be- cause it terrifies the human imagination through the astonishment of ...
... harmony of the one and the many that comprises the art of Nature , the art of God , the art of literature , and the art of living -- art which is sublime , not be- cause it terrifies the human imagination through the astonishment of ...
Contents
ART AS THE ABILITY TO CONCEAL | 1 |
NATURE AND FORTUNE AS INTELLI | 55 |
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