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
... sometimes objected to her commentary . 1 There are of course some striking modern examples of the author's presence — in Thomas Mann and Andre Gide . Some of her reviewers criticized it . Joseph Langford said 12 Introduction.
... sometimes objected to her commentary . 1 There are of course some striking modern examples of the author's presence — in Thomas Mann and Andre Gide . Some of her reviewers criticized it . Joseph Langford said 12 Introduction.
Page 14
... course more concerned with generalization than with the scrutiny of particular details of form and language or with the tracing of change in a novelist's method , but his generali- zation has a certain weakness . It is a formula which ...
... course more concerned with generalization than with the scrutiny of particular details of form and language or with the tracing of change in a novelist's method , but his generali- zation has a certain weakness . It is a formula which ...
Page 16
... course showing a certain blindness to the arts of simplification when she speaks of the falsity of Dickens's ' preternaturally virtuous poor children and artisans . . as noxious as Eugene Sue's idealized proletaires ' , but her ...
... course showing a certain blindness to the arts of simplification when she speaks of the falsity of Dickens's ' preternaturally virtuous poor children and artisans . . as noxious as Eugene Sue's idealized proletaires ' , but her ...
Page 18
... 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 practical serial recapitulation - this is part of the ...
... 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 practical serial recapitulation - this is part of the ...
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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