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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... instance , in his introduction to the World's Classics edition of Silas Marner , says : ' As a rule , however , she shows but a slight power over the great art of construction . And this gives an added importance to Silas Marner — the ...
... instance , in his introduction to the World's Classics edition of Silas Marner , says : ' As a rule , however , she shows but a slight power over the great art of construction . And this gives an added importance to Silas Marner — the ...
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... instance , with the relation- ship of Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus , or that of Mrs Dalloway and Septimus Warren , that they appear as formal relationship rather than ordinary human relationship . The importance of Bloom's ...
... instance , with the relation- ship of Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus , or that of Mrs Dalloway and Septimus Warren , that they appear as formal relationship rather than ordinary human relationship . The importance of Bloom's ...
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... instance , compared the agitation of interest aroused by Middlemarch with that ' with which the Youth of Cambridge tore open the packets of the new volumes of Clarissa ' , though he went on to suggest that the serial form might blind ...
... instance , compared the agitation of interest aroused by Middlemarch with that ' with which the Youth of Cambridge tore open the packets of the new volumes of Clarissa ' , though he went on to suggest that the serial form might blind ...
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... instance , to her imagery . Her irony , her continuity , and her presentation of change and collision , depend to some extent on repetitions , more or less prominent , of phrases and images which may make a casual first appearance . But ...
... instance , to her imagery . Her irony , her continuity , and her presentation of change and collision , depend to some extent on repetitions , more or less prominent , of phrases and images which may make a casual first appearance . But ...
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... instance , uses recurring images from The Arabian Nights in North and South it is , I think , rather because of personal predilection or casual association than because these images vibrate recognizably beyond the immediate occasion on ...
... instance , uses recurring images from The Arabian Nights in North and South it is , I think , rather because of personal predilection or casual association than because these images vibrate recognizably beyond the immediate occasion on ...
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