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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... mind about 1 The probable exception is Scenes of Clerical Life : see below , pp . KJ7-8 . ' I use ' serial ' to describe those novels published in parts as well as her orthodox ' serials ' . the second part , which was originally ...
... mind about 1 The probable exception is Scenes of Clerical Life : see below , pp . KJ7-8 . ' I use ' serial ' to describe those novels published in parts as well as her orthodox ' serials ' . the second part , which was originally ...
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... mind making one Book thin and the other thick . ( Haight , v , pp . 307 , 308 ) And Lewes wrote back agreeing . Reviewers applauded the happy results of serial form . The reviewer in The Edinburgh Review of January 1878 , for instance ...
... mind making one Book thin and the other thick . ( Haight , v , pp . 307 , 308 ) And Lewes wrote back agreeing . Reviewers applauded the happy results of serial form . The reviewer in The Edinburgh Review of January 1878 , for instance ...
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... mind , but she may well have written in the consciousness of a slower and more attentive reader . It is surely true that the human delineation is the part of a novel to which the reader gives most scrupulous attention , but here again ...
... mind , but she may well have written in the consciousness of a slower and more attentive reader . It is surely true that the human delineation is the part of a novel to which the reader gives most scrupulous attention , but here again ...
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... mind- and - millinery fiction ' with its lulling social lies , but she also attacks the more benevolent distortions of Dickens . It is in her review of Riehl's Die Bürgerliche Gesellschaft for The Westminster Review ( 1856 ) that her ...
... mind- and - millinery fiction ' with its lulling social lies , but she also attacks the more benevolent distortions of Dickens . It is in her review of Riehl's Die Bürgerliche Gesellschaft for The Westminster Review ( 1856 ) that her ...
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... mind with itself becomes the main theme . The inarticulate character has of course survived . He is present in the strong and silent heroes of Hemingway , where sophistication is often implied 1 It should be mentioned that this direct ...
... mind with itself becomes the main theme . The inarticulate character has of course survived . He is present in the strong and silent heroes of Hemingway , where sophistication is often implied 1 It should be mentioned that this direct ...
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