Surprise: The Poetics of the Unexpected from Milton to Austen
Surprise: The Poetics of the Unexpected from Milton to Austen
Christopher R. Miller
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Christopher R. Miller studies the shift in the cultural meaning of "surprise" in 18th-century England from connoting violent attack to encompassing pleasurable experience, and from external event to internal feeling.
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Christopher R. Miller studies the shift in the cultural meaning of "surprise" in 18th-century England from connoting violent attack to encompassing pleasurable experience, and from external event to internal feeling.
Christopher R. Miller
Christopher R. Miller is Associate Professor of English at the College of Staten Island (CUNY). He is the author of The Invention of Evening: Perception and Time in Romantic Poetry.
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