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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... children and artisans . . as noxious as Eugene Sue's idealized proletaires ' , but her objection is not merely an aesthetic one . What she dislikes is not caricature but senti- • mental caricature . Like Shaw , she refuses to worship 18 ...
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... children : ' They cried because mamma was ill and papa looked so unhappy ; but they thought , perhaps next week things would be as they used to be again ' ( ch . viii ) . But there is parallel , and not the expected contrast , in the ...
... children : ' They cried because mamma was ill and papa looked so unhappy ; but they thought , perhaps next week things would be as they used to be again ' ( ch . viii ) . But there is parallel , and not the expected contrast , in the ...
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... child- hood upwards in catacombs , the torchlight and shadows must have seemed nearer the Divine presence than the heathenish daylight of the streets . The secret of our emotions never lies in the bare object , but in its subtle ...
... child- hood upwards in catacombs , the torchlight and shadows must have seemed nearer the Divine presence than the heathenish daylight of the streets . The secret of our emotions never lies in the bare object , but in its subtle ...
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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