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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... narrative form it has been Flaubert or Henry James who have provided the models , certainly not George Eliot . Percy Lubbock , whose Craft of Fiction is still one of the most interesting discussions of form in the novel , scarcely ...
... narrative form it has been Flaubert or Henry James who have provided the models , certainly not George Eliot . Percy Lubbock , whose Craft of Fiction is still one of the most interesting discussions of form in the novel , scarcely ...
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... narrative form than any other novelist writing in English , and he is certainly the first English critic to pay sustained attention to the special problems of the novel form . But his concept of form is a very personal and restricted ...
... narrative form than any other novelist writing in English , and he is certainly the first English critic to pay sustained attention to the special problems of the novel form . But his concept of form is a very personal and restricted ...
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... narrative , where the scope of the human delineation seems to be easily fitted into the curve of beginning , middle , and end . We have to enlarge our concept of narrative shapeliness when we read Tolstoy and Dickens and George Eliot ...
... narrative , where the scope of the human delineation seems to be easily fitted into the curve of beginning , middle , and end . We have to enlarge our concept of narrative shapeliness when we read Tolstoy and Dickens and George Eliot ...
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... narrative makes the pattern plainer , or whether the pattern is pressed into the service of making a distorted human delineation plain and sig- nificant . It is probably a little of both . And in addition it may be that the insistent ...
... narrative makes the pattern plainer , or whether the pattern is pressed into the service of making a distorted human delineation plain and sig- nificant . It is probably a little of both . And in addition it may be that the insistent ...
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... narrative form . In the case of novels published serially , as some of George Eliot's were , the organization of the reader's curiosity is , as Mrs Tillotson has pointed out in The Novels of the Eighteen- forties , a special problem ...
... narrative form . In the case of novels published serially , as some of George Eliot's were , the organization of the reader's curiosity is , as Mrs Tillotson has pointed out in The Novels of the Eighteen- forties , a special problem ...
Contents
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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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