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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... matter , in the same way that Shake- speare's Prospero sees the form of Ariel camou- flaged in the matter of a tree . He does not im- pose form on matter or create ex nihilo . As C. S. Lewis says in The Discarded Image : " 1 • Spin ...
... matter , in the same way that Shake- speare's Prospero sees the form of Ariel camou- flaged in the matter of a tree . He does not im- pose form on matter or create ex nihilo . As C. S. Lewis says in The Discarded Image : " 1 • Spin ...
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... matter of the novelist , is as inex- haustible as the copiousness of Mother Nature's animal and vegetable kingdom , the matter of the cook : in Human Nature , though here col- lected under one general name , is such prodigious variety ...
... matter of the novelist , is as inex- haustible as the copiousness of Mother Nature's animal and vegetable kingdom , the matter of the cook : in Human Nature , though here col- lected under one general name , is such prodigious variety ...
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... matter - of - fact account of Jon- athan Wild's genealogy , tracing his ancestry from the time of the Anglo - Saxons to the recent history of the Wild family . Written in the style of " Mathematical Plainness " that follows the ideal of ...
... matter - of - fact account of Jon- athan Wild's genealogy , tracing his ancestry from the time of the Anglo - Saxons to the recent history of the Wild family . Written in the style of " Mathematical Plainness " that follows the ideal of ...
Contents
ART AS THE ABILITY TO CONCEAL | 1 |
NATURE AND FORTUNE AS INTELLI | 55 |
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Copyright | |
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