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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... moral analysis of men and societies . The nature and importance of George Eliot's formal power has to some extent been understandably obscured by her power of creating a lively image of man in society . This image is realistic : it ...
... moral analysis of men and societies . The nature and importance of George Eliot's formal power has to some extent been understandably obscured by her power of creating a lively image of man in society . This image is realistic : it ...
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... moral emphasis . Just as it is possible to see the pattern of continued and varied images making part of the form of the novel , so it is possible and even more important — to see a pattern of symmetry and contrast and repetition ...
... moral emphasis . Just as it is possible to see the pattern of continued and varied images making part of the form of the novel , so it is possible and even more important — to see a pattern of symmetry and contrast and repetition ...
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... moral generaliza- tion in the process of the formal reading , like seeing trees bent out of shape by the prevailing wind . Her prevailing wind is the human egoism which may be damned or redeemed , and we make this generalization not ...
... moral generaliza- tion in the process of the formal reading , like seeing trees bent out of shape by the prevailing wind . Her prevailing wind is the human egoism which may be damned or redeemed , and we make this generalization not ...
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... moral generali- zation is given form by a more elaborate pattern of character , action and image , in so far as this pattern can be extracted from the particulars which make each novel . I have tried to indicate the formal process ...
... moral generali- zation is given form by a more elaborate pattern of character , action and image , in so far as this pattern can be extracted from the particulars which make each novel . I have tried to indicate the formal process ...
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... moral sentiment already in activity ; but a picture of human life such as a great artist can give , surprises even the trivial and the selfish into that attention to what is apart from themselves , which may be called the raw material ...
... moral sentiment already in activity ; but a picture of human life such as a great artist can give , surprises even the trivial and the selfish into that attention to what is apart from themselves , which may be called the raw material ...
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