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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... whole rationale for the unities of time and place : " Who ever demanded the reasons of that nice unity of time or place which is now estab- lished to be so essential to dramatic poetry ? " The rules that prescribe absolute adherence to ...
... whole rationale for the unities of time and place : " Who ever demanded the reasons of that nice unity of time or place which is now estab- lished to be so essential to dramatic poetry ? " The rules that prescribe absolute adherence to ...
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... whole field becomes enamelled " ) -- Fielding parts company from the theo- rists of the sublime who based their notion of greatness upon terror , obscurity , and vagueness rather than upon stillness , clarity , and color-- the idea of ...
... whole field becomes enamelled " ) -- Fielding parts company from the theo- rists of the sublime who based their notion of greatness upon terror , obscurity , and vagueness rather than upon stillness , clarity , and color-- the idea of ...
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... whole : The Greek philosophy will , perhaps , help us to a better idea ; for neither will the several constituent parts , nor the contexture of the whole , give an adequate notion of the word . By the Constitution is , indeed , rather ...
... whole : The Greek philosophy will , perhaps , help us to a better idea ; for neither will the several constituent parts , nor the contexture of the whole , give an adequate notion of the word . By the Constitution is , indeed , rather ...
Contents
ART AS THE ABILITY TO CONCEAL | 1 |
NATURE AND FORTUNE AS INTELLI | 55 |
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