Print version: Miller, Christopher R. Surprise : the poetics of the unexpected from Milton to Austen. Ithaca : Cornell University, 2015 ISBN 9780801453694
Includes bibliographical references and index
From Aristotle to emotion theory -- Being and feeling: the surprise attacks of Paradise Lost -- The accidental doctor: physics and metaphysics in Robinson Crusoe -- The purification of surprise in Pamela -- Fielding’s statues of surprize -- Northanger Abbey and Gothic perception: Austen’s aesthetics and ethics of surprise -- Wordsworthian shocks, gentle and otherwise -- Fine suddenness?: Keats’s sense of a beginning.