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 12
... becomes a way of making character act as symbol . But just as Joyce and Faulkner make their formal relations of character clearer by using the ironical backcloth of myth , so George Eliot uses her own commentary . There are places where ...
... becomes a way of making character act as symbol . But just as Joyce and Faulkner make their formal relations of character clearer by using the ironical backcloth of myth , so George Eliot uses her own commentary . There are places where ...
Page 16
... become intimations of eternity . ' It is a big ' thus ' , and one which will not do as an explanation of George Eliot . Praz suggests that it is the cult of association both in George Eliot and Proust which brings about this ' trans ...
... become intimations of eternity . ' It is a big ' thus ' , and one which will not do as an explanation of George Eliot . Praz suggests that it is the cult of association both in George Eliot and Proust which brings about this ' trans ...
Page 18
... becomes the main theme . The inarticulate character has of course survived . He is present in the strong and silent heroes of Hemingway , where sophistication is often implied 1 It should be mentioned that this direct address is a ...
... becomes the main theme . The inarticulate character has of course survived . He is present in the strong and silent heroes of Hemingway , where sophistication is often implied 1 It should be mentioned that this direct address is a ...
Page 19
... becomes warmer and more imperative . But the in- intense solicitation is meant to fill the gap not only between writer and character , but between the intelligent man and the 1 This is not always the reaction of habitual readers of ...
... becomes warmer and more imperative . But the in- intense solicitation is meant to fill the gap not only between writer and character , but between the intelligent man and the 1 This is not always the reaction of habitual readers of ...
Page 21
... man's tragedy becomes everyone's tragedy : the strength and weakness of the community , its power to destroy with a casual murmur and to heal with the friendly smile , are shown directly , in the course 21 The Unheroic Tragedy.
... man's tragedy becomes everyone's tragedy : the strength and weakness of the community , its power to destroy with a casual murmur and to heal with the friendly smile , are shown directly , in the course 21 The Unheroic Tragedy.
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