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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... experience . Her vision of humanity finds its own appropriate forms : comprehensive rather than selective , tentative rather than dogmatic . The largeness and comprehensiveness of her novels have meant that she has not been admired as a ...
... experience . Her vision of humanity finds its own appropriate forms : comprehensive rather than selective , tentative rather than dogmatic . The largeness and comprehensiveness of her novels have meant that she has not been admired as a ...
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... . I have tried to indicate the formal process rather than to track it down ex- haustively -- the experienced reader will add many more in- stances for himself . G CHAPTER I The Unheroic Tragedy EORGE ELIOT explained that 18 Introduction.
... . I have tried to indicate the formal process rather than to track it down ex- haustively -- the experienced reader will add many more in- stances for himself . G CHAPTER I The Unheroic Tragedy EORGE ELIOT explained that 18 Introduction.
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... experience of a human soul that looks out through dull grey eyes , and that speaks in a voice of quite ordinary tones ' ( Amos Barton , ch . v ) .1 The subject and the theme is this voice of ordinary tones . The direct address is one of ...
... experience of a human soul that looks out through dull grey eyes , and that speaks in a voice of quite ordinary tones ' ( Amos Barton , ch . v ) .1 The subject and the theme is this voice of ordinary tones . The direct address is one of ...
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... experience , can write like Zola . In fact , Dempster's death , with the frantic imagery of delirium tremens , 1 is rivalled only by the length of the cor- responding scene in L'Assommoir . Here is a realistic death- bed : Her hair is ...
... experience , can write like Zola . In fact , Dempster's death , with the frantic imagery of delirium tremens , 1 is rivalled only by the length of the cor- responding scene in L'Assommoir . Here is a realistic death- bed : Her hair is ...
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... experience , but as the story proceeds the gap narrows . Adam extends his experience , and this extension is the first example of George Eliot's tragic pattern . Adam , like Maggie and Esther and Dorothea and the rest , enlarges his ...
... experience , but as the story proceeds the gap narrows . Adam extends his experience , and this extension is the first example of George Eliot's tragic pattern . Adam , like Maggie and Esther and Dorothea and the rest , enlarges his ...
Contents
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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