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 27
... never asking himself why , now he was come to Raveloe , he worked far on into the night to finish 1 For further discussion of Hetty , see Chapter VIII below . the tale of Mrs Osgood's table - linen sooner than 27 The Unheroic Tragedy.
... never asking himself why , now he was come to Raveloe , he worked far on into the night to finish 1 For further discussion of Hetty , see Chapter VIII below . the tale of Mrs Osgood's table - linen sooner than 27 The Unheroic Tragedy.
Page 29
... never have used it . Gwen- dolen's is the guilty wish , not the guilty act — though the difference between wish and act is not exaggerated . But it is there . The peripheral melodrama in the novels may be a kind of indirect compensation ...
... never have used it . Gwen- dolen's is the guilty wish , not the guilty act — though the difference between wish and act is not exaggerated . But it is there . The peripheral melodrama in the novels may be a kind of indirect compensation ...
Page 34
... never be fulfilled without ruining somebody ; and he resolved , for his part , to set his face against such doings , ( ch . xvi ) Heroism is supplanted , in George Eliot , by the diffusion of good works . We see the small beneficent act ...
... never be fulfilled without ruining somebody ; and he resolved , for his part , to set his face against such doings , ( ch . xvi ) Heroism is supplanted , in George Eliot , by the diffusion of good works . We see the small beneficent act ...
Page 35
... never put off the workman's coat on weekdays : they have not had the art of getting rich ; but they are men of trust ... never have hap- pened — might never have happened , ( ch . xl ) The social waste is underlined by the tragedy of ...
... never put off the workman's coat on weekdays : they have not had the art of getting rich ; but they are men of trust ... never have hap- pened — might never have happened , ( ch . xl ) The social waste is underlined by the tragedy of ...
Page 40
... never lies in the bare object , but in its subtle relations to our own past : no wonder the secret escapes the unsympathising observer , who might as well put on his spectacles to discern odours , ( ch . xviii ) This scene in the church ...
... never lies in the bare object , but in its subtle relations to our own past : no wonder the secret escapes the unsympathising observer , who might as well put on his spectacles to discern odours , ( ch . xviii ) This scene in the church ...
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