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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... light in the unity and variety and symmetry is only a part of the total response . George Eliot's composition is usually as complex and as subtle as the composition of Henry James or Proust or Joyce , but it is very much less ...
... light in the unity and variety and symmetry is only a part of the total response . George Eliot's composition is usually as complex and as subtle as the composition of Henry James or Proust or Joyce , but it is very much less ...
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... light on the ' whole world of helpless creatures , who are innocent without virtue . . . and whose . . . slight natures lie helpless ... on the edge of the most fatal whirlpools ' . It was perhaps not strictly true to call Hetty ...
... light on the ' whole world of helpless creatures , who are innocent without virtue . . . and whose . . . slight natures lie helpless ... on the edge of the most fatal whirlpools ' . It was perhaps not strictly true to call Hetty ...
Page 27
... light and warmth again . She walked backwards and forwards to warm herself , beginning to discern something of the objects around her , as her eyes became accustomed to the night : the darker line of the hedge , the rapid motion of some ...
... light and warmth again . She walked backwards and forwards to warm herself , beginning to discern something of the objects around her , as her eyes became accustomed to the night : the darker line of the hedge , the rapid motion of some ...
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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