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 vii
... given to Birkbeck students , and I should like to express particular gratitude to the members of a dis- cussion group on Middlemarch . My debt to Professor Gordon S. Haight's edition of The George Eliot Letters will be self - evident ...
... given to Birkbeck students , and I should like to express particular gratitude to the members of a dis- cussion group on Middlemarch . My debt to Professor Gordon S. Haight's edition of The George Eliot Letters will be self - evident ...
Page x
... given references to modern continuous chapter numbering , except in the case of The Mill on the Floss , where most later editions still retain the original chapter numbering within books . SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY WORKS BY GEORGE ELIOT ...
... given references to modern continuous chapter numbering , except in the case of The Mill on the Floss , where most later editions still retain the original chapter numbering within books . SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY WORKS BY GEORGE ELIOT ...
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... given unobtrusively . It is because her organization , though complex and sus- tained , is so embedded in her narrative that it has usually passed unpraised . This is not just because her dramatic variety is greater than Dickens's , but ...
... given unobtrusively . It is because her organization , though complex and sus- tained , is so embedded in her narrative that it has usually passed unpraised . This is not just because her dramatic variety is greater than Dickens's , but ...
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... given form by a more elaborate pattern of character , action and image , in so far as this pattern can be extracted from the particulars which make each novel . I have tried to indicate the formal process rather than to track it down ex ...
... given form by a more elaborate pattern of character , action and image , in so far as this pattern can be extracted from the particulars which make each novel . I have tried to indicate the formal process rather than to track it down ex ...
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... given the appear- ance of inflation , by not remaining sufficiently particularized : Amos is given little within his character which makes him big enough or exaggerated enough ( like Adam or Bloom ) to bear the weight of this general ...
... given the appear- ance of inflation , by not remaining sufficiently particularized : Amos is given little within his character which makes him big enough or exaggerated enough ( like Adam or Bloom ) to bear the weight of this general ...
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