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 3
... gives an added importance to Silas Marner — the one story of hers which can be approached from the artistic point of view , for it has a plot and a very good one . ' It is plain that he is follow- ing many of George Eliot's earlier ...
... gives an added importance to Silas Marner — the one story of hers which can be approached from the artistic point of view , for it has a plot and a very good one . ' It is plain that he is follow- ing many of George Eliot's earlier ...
Page 4
... It is perhaps often true that the novel , least sensuous of all forms of art , relies on this kind of formal assertiveness to give a satisfaction which may be felt separ- ately and strongly apart from the human material it is 4 ...
... It is perhaps often true that the novel , least sensuous of all forms of art , relies on this kind of formal assertiveness to give a satisfaction which may be felt separ- ately and strongly apart from the human material it is 4 ...
Page 9
... give to the novel , and it is certainly trae that it comes out of the unnatural activity of reading novels many times ... gives to his writing , and in the case of novels of the last two centuries there is the further consideration that ...
... give to the novel , and it is certainly trae that it comes out of the unnatural activity of reading novels many times ... gives to his writing , and in the case of novels of the last two centuries there is the further consideration that ...
Page 10
... gives most scrupulous attention , but here again we lose something if we read the story — and here I would include with the story what George Eliot thought of as the ' aesthetic teaching ' -- solely in terms of ordinary human relations ...
... gives most scrupulous attention , but here again we lose something if we read the story — and here I would include with the story what George Eliot thought of as the ' aesthetic teaching ' -- solely in terms of ordinary human relations ...
Page 13
... gives the clues in chapter - headings and parallel scenes and verbal echo . She does not directly remind us of Gwendolen's terror when the panel sprang open to show the dead face , but leaves it to us to hear the echo when , at the end ...
... gives the clues in chapter - headings and parallel scenes and verbal echo . She does not directly remind us of Gwendolen's terror when the panel sprang open to show the dead face , but leaves it to us to hear the echo when , at the end ...
Contents
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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