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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... direct expression of George Eliot's profound analysis of the human condition . Professor Hardy is Head of the Department of English at Birkbeck College , University of London . Another of her books , The Appropriate Form : An Essay on ...
... direct expression of George Eliot's profound analysis of the human condition . Professor Hardy is Head of the Department of English at Birkbeck College , University of London . Another of her books , The Appropriate Form : An Essay on ...
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... direct statement redundant . In later novels we are used to the assertions of form acting as stand - in for the absent author1 — in Ulysses or A Fable , for instance , the full signi- ficance of the characters ' relations has to be ...
... direct statement redundant . In later novels we are used to the assertions of form acting as stand - in for the absent author1 — in Ulysses or A Fable , for instance , the full signi- ficance of the characters ' relations has to be ...
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... direct speech , we may find some interest in following its contribution to the changing pattern of the novel , and follow its own internal changes too , as it moves from pathetic appeal to irony and reflective gravity , as it intercepts ...
... direct speech , we may find some interest in following its contribution to the changing pattern of the novel , and follow its own internal changes too , as it moves from pathetic appeal to irony and reflective gravity , as it intercepts ...
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... direct commentary is an important part of her attempt to intensify the dull material . Its degree of tact varies , but the external appeal by the author is a necessary accompaniment to her underdistanced portrayal of character . The ...
... direct commentary is an important part of her attempt to intensify the dull material . Its degree of tact varies , but the external appeal by the author is a necessary accompaniment to her underdistanced portrayal of character . The ...
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... direct address is one of George Eliot's favourite methods of thematic intensification . The intensification is made outside the character and the story , in generalization . The sentimental appeal which is within Little Nell is made ...
... direct address is one of George Eliot's favourite methods of thematic intensification . The intensification is made outside the character and the story , in generalization . The sentimental appeal which is within Little Nell is made ...
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