TY - BOOK AU - Stanley,Kate TI - Practices of surprise in American literature after Emerson SN - 9781108426879 U1 - 810.9 PY - 2018/// CY - United Kingdom ; New York, NY PB - Cambridge University Press, N2 - This book traces an aesthetics of surprise through the work of major modernist writers and pragmatist philosophers who aimed to harness the experience of the unexpected in their writing and to transmit it to readers. It will serve scholars seeking new perspectives on the relationship between literature and philosophy and literary modernism ER -