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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Page 25
... variety of char- acters . " In his dialogue with Wilson , Parson Ad- ams lauds Homer's sense of variety : " If we con- sider their variety , we may cry out with Aristotle ( in his twenty - fourth chapter , that no part of this divine ...
... variety of char- acters . " In his dialogue with Wilson , Parson Ad- ams lauds Homer's sense of variety : " If we con- sider their variety , we may cry out with Aristotle ( in his twenty - fourth chapter , that no part of this divine ...
Page 114
... variety , of the epic --what Fielding in Amelia calls " the Art of Life " ( p . 4 , Bk . I , ch . i ) . Just as Parson Adams in Jo- seph Andrews , rapt with wonder at the inexhaust- ible beauties of the Iliad , cannot praise Homer's ...
... variety , of the epic --what Fielding in Amelia calls " the Art of Life " ( p . 4 , Bk . I , ch . i ) . Just as Parson Adams in Jo- seph Andrews , rapt with wonder at the inexhaust- ible beauties of the Iliad , cannot praise Homer's ...
Page 214
... variety of fruit and every thing useful for the kitchen " ) to the " prodigious variety " of Nature's feast , the bill of fare offered in the first chapter of Tom Jones , to the " amazing variety of meadows and woods that adorn ...
... variety of fruit and every thing useful for the kitchen " ) to the " prodigious variety " of Nature's feast , the bill of fare offered in the first chapter of Tom Jones , to the " amazing variety of meadows and woods that adorn ...
Contents
ART AS THE ABILITY TO CONCEAL | 1 |
NATURE AND FORTUNE AS INTELLI | 55 |
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