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
... meet the aesthetic demands of unity and order . The novel can gratify the formal pleasure in balance and opposition and unity , and at the same time pre- sent its intellectual and moral analysis of men and societies . The nature and ...
... meet the aesthetic demands of unity and order . The novel can gratify the formal pleasure in balance and opposition and unity , and at the same time pre- sent its intellectual and moral analysis of men and societies . The nature and ...
Page 6
... meet the practical problems of serial form , 2 but they show her interest in the unity of the novel as a whole rather than in the construction of separate tensions . Lewes wrote to Blackwood a few days before sending him the first part ...
... meet the practical problems of serial form , 2 but they show her interest in the unity of the novel as a whole rather than in the construction of separate tensions . Lewes wrote to Blackwood a few days before sending him the first part ...
Page 26
... meet it . Hetty's desperate journey is given by the faithful stream of her consciousness . There is no more analysis and explanation , only : ' Her poor narrow thoughts , no longer melt- ing into vague hopes , but pressed upon by the ...
... meet it . Hetty's desperate journey is given by the faithful stream of her consciousness . There is no more analysis and explanation , only : ' Her poor narrow thoughts , no longer melt- ing into vague hopes , but pressed upon by the ...
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... meet him , in a long address putting spiritual values in their place and extolling the dignity of labour : And there's such a thing as being over - speritial ; we must have something beside Gospel i ' this world . Look at the canals ...
... meet him , in a long address putting spiritual values in their place and extolling the dignity of labour : And there's such a thing as being over - speritial ; we must have something beside Gospel i ' this world . Look at the canals ...
Page 41
... meets Arthur after Hetty's trial . There is the growing irony for Adam that ' life's a reckoning we can't make twice over ' , for with each successive lesson what is learnt comes too late to hold any hone for the past , and even its ...
... meets Arthur after Hetty's trial . There is the growing irony for Adam that ' life's a reckoning we can't make twice over ' , for with each successive lesson what is learnt comes too late to hold any hone for the past , and even its ...
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