 | Surprise: The Poetics of the Unexpected from Milton to Austen 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 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 . |
