4. The Purification of Surprise in Pamela

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. From Aristotle to Emotion Theory 16
6. 2. Being and Feeling: The Surprise Attacks of Paradise Lost 38
7. 3. The Accidental Doctor: Physics and Metaphysics in Robinson Crusoe 63
8. 4. The Purification of Surprise in Pamela 89
9. 5. Fielding’s Statues of Surprize 115
10. 6. Northanger Abbey and Gothic Perception: Austen’s Aesthetics and Ethics of Surprise 141
11. 7. Wordsworthian Shocks, Gentle and Otherwise 171
12. 8. “Fine Suddenness”: Keats’s Sense of a Beginning 199
13. Epilogue 223
14. Notes 233
15. Index 267