Novels of George EliotBarbara Hardy's Novels of George Eliot is a classic study of Eliots's outstanding powers as a great formal artist. The book's continuing appeal is due not simply to the perceptiveness and freshness of its writing but to the fact that form is interpreted in the widest sense to include whatever is relevant to the novels as organised, articulated, imaginative wholes and also as the direct expression of George Eliot's profound analysis of the human condition. |
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Page 8
... action , and this would be excessive simplification . To speak of the shapeliness of a novel by Flaubert or Henry James may be entirely accurate but it is rather as if we were to speak of the shape of the human body and think we had ...
... action , and this would be excessive simplification . To speak of the shapeliness of a novel by Flaubert or Henry James may be entirely accurate but it is rather as if we were to speak of the shape of the human body and think we had ...
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... action and in characters . George Eliot's power of composition is a very ex- tensive one and , although she is not generally thought of as a sensuously ' poetic ' writer like Melville or Emily Bronte or Lawrence , we lose a great deal ...
... action and in characters . George Eliot's power of composition is a very ex- tensive one and , although she is not generally thought of as a sensuously ' poetic ' writer like Melville or Emily Bronte or Lawrence , we lose a great deal ...
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... action , and contributing to the definiteness and the mutability of what we call theme or generalization . For the intensive patterning of all the units of the novel in George Eliot is not , as it is in the plays of John Lyly , for ...
... action , and contributing to the definiteness and the mutability of what we call theme or generalization . For the intensive patterning of all the units of the novel in George Eliot is not , as it is in the plays of John Lyly , for ...
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... action , George Eliot's world has a quiet normality , and it is this quietness which , above all , diverts our attention from its complicated artifice . It is the normal appearance of the world which is perhaps responsible also for the ...
... action , George Eliot's world has a quiet normality , and it is this quietness which , above all , diverts our attention from its complicated artifice . It is the normal appearance of the world which is perhaps responsible also for the ...
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... action . The diffused exemplariness of the characters who make the moral statement by accreting re- semblances or differences is supported also by the same kind of formal placing of events . In actions and scenes as well as words and ...
... action . The diffused exemplariness of the characters who make the moral statement by accreting re- semblances or differences is supported also by the same kind of formal placing of events . In actions and scenes as well as words and ...
Contents
1 | |
14 | |
32 | |
The Heroines | 47 |
The Egoists | 68 |
V Character and Form | 78 |
VI Plot and Form | 115 |
VII Possibilities | 135 |
Intimate Prophetic and Dramatic | 155 |
IX The Scene as Image | 185 |
X The Pathetic Image | 201 |
XI The Ironical Image | 215 |
Conclusion | 233 |
Index | 239 |
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action Adam Bede Adam's Amos Barton appearance ardour Arthur author's Blackwood Bulstrode Bulstrode's Casaubon chapter characters child coincidence comes commentary context contrast crisis Daniel Deronda dead death Dinah Dorothea dramatic dream echo egoism elaborate Esther example face feeling Felix Holt Floss formal Fred George Eliot gives Grandcourt Gwendolen Haight Henry James hero heroines Hetty Hetty Sorrel Hetty's human imagery imagination insistent interest ironical irony kind later less light look Lydgate Lydgate's Maggie Maggie's marriage metaphor Middlemarch mind Mirah mirror moral move narrative never novel ordinary parallel passion pathetic images pathos pattern perhaps Piero pity plot portrait possibility present reader reading recurring relation repetition Romola Rosamond Savonarola says Scenes of Clerical seems sense sensibility shown Silas Marner social sometimes soul story strong symbol sympathy theme things thought tion Tito Tito's tone tragedy tragic Transome Transome's turn underlined vision voice woman