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 3
... beginning , middle , and end . We have to enlarge our concept of narrative shapeliness when we read Tolstoy and Dickens and George Eliot , though this does not mean that their larger and more complex delineation cannot meet the ...
... beginning , middle , and end . We have to enlarge our concept of narrative shapeliness when we read Tolstoy and Dickens and George Eliot , though this does not mean that their larger and more complex delineation cannot meet the ...
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... beginning we are pre- sented plainly with a mystery — the mystery of Mrs Transome's past . Blackwood1 received the novel in parts , and was placed in the position of a serial - reader , reacting by guessing and wondering . After reading ...
... beginning we are pre- sented plainly with a mystery — the mystery of Mrs Transome's past . Blackwood1 received the novel in parts , and was placed in the position of a serial - reader , reacting by guessing and wondering . After reading ...
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... beginning to suggest a few of the ways in which this intensification of ordinary things may work , it is as well to say something about the nature of George Eliot's didactic aim . Whereas Lewes attacks ' detailism ' as the negation of ...
... beginning to suggest a few of the ways in which this intensification of ordinary things may work , it is as well to say something about the nature of George Eliot's didactic aim . Whereas Lewes attacks ' detailism ' as the negation of ...
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... beginning to discern something of the objects around her , as her eyes became accustomed to the night : the darker line of the hedge , the rapid motion of some living creature -- perhaps a fieldmouse — rushing across the grass . She no ...
... beginning to discern something of the objects around her , as her eyes became accustomed to the night : the darker line of the hedge , the rapid motion of some living creature -- perhaps a fieldmouse — rushing across the grass . She no ...
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... beginning Adam has as much to learn , in his terms , as Lear . His rectitude is unimaginative , and George Eliot begins by making this very clear . The human reaction to his defence of labour is beautifully drawn . The other artisans ...
... beginning Adam has as much to learn , in his terms , as Lear . His rectitude is unimaginative , and George Eliot begins by making this very clear . The human reaction to his defence of labour is beautifully drawn . The other artisans ...
Contents
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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