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
... less as they do here , in the form of articles in The Review of English Studies and The Modern Language Review . I am grateful to the editors of both journals for their courtesy in permitting me to reprint this material . Perhaps I ...
... less as they do here , in the form of articles in The Review of English Studies and The Modern Language Review . I am grateful to the editors of both journals for their courtesy in permitting me to reprint this material . Perhaps I ...
Page 1
... less consistently than Mario Praz , in The Hero in Eclipse in Victorian Fiction , would have us believe . Even when her protagonist has extra- ordinary qualities , like Adam Bede or Dorothea Brooke , and demands admiration as well as ...
... less consistently than Mario Praz , in The Hero in Eclipse in Victorian Fiction , would have us believe . Even when her protagonist has extra- ordinary qualities , like Adam Bede or Dorothea Brooke , and demands admiration as well as ...
Page 2
... simplified ways . Critics with less sense of the subtleties of narrative composition can be par- doned for going even further astray than Henry James . The concept of the ideal narrative form as a simple , 2 Introduction.
... simplified ways . Critics with less sense of the subtleties of narrative composition can be par- doned for going even further astray than Henry James . The concept of the ideal narrative form as a simple , 2 Introduction.
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... less obviously discernible ' shape ' of long novels . It is easy to see what is meant by the shapeliness of a short or single narrative , where the scope of the human delineation seems to be easily fitted into the curve of beginning ...
... less obviously discernible ' shape ' of long novels . It is easy to see what is meant by the shapeliness of a short or single narrative , where the scope of the human delineation seems to be easily fitted into the curve of beginning ...
Page 4
... less naked and its function less dependent on the reader's immediate recognition than in more stylized and less realistic art . In many later novels it is essential to grasp the formal relations of the char- acters in order to follow ...
... less naked and its function less dependent on the reader's immediate recognition than in more stylized and less realistic art . In many later novels it is essential to grasp the formal relations of the char- acters in order to follow ...
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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