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 1
... ordinary rather than extraordinary heroes , though much less consistently than Mario Praz , in The Hero in Eclipse in Victorian Fiction , would have us believe . Even when her protagonist has extra- ordinary qualities , like Adam Bede ...
... ordinary rather than extraordinary heroes , though much less consistently than Mario Praz , in The Hero in Eclipse in Victorian Fiction , would have us believe . Even when her protagonist has extra- ordinary qualities , like Adam Bede ...
Page 4
... ordinary human relationship . The importance of Bloom's encounter with Stephen depends largely on this formal reading . We read the encounter in terms of ironical antithesis — the son looking for a father , the father for a son , with ...
... ordinary human relationship . The importance of Bloom's encounter with Stephen depends largely on this formal reading . We read the encounter in terms of ironical antithesis — the son looking for a father , the father for a son , with ...
Page 10
... ordinary human relations . Like King Lear and War and Peace the novels of George Eliot depend on the emphasis of formal relations as well as the ordinary interest of the human rela- tions of loving and hating and betraying and serving ...
... ordinary human relations . Like King Lear and War and Peace the novels of George Eliot depend on the emphasis of formal relations as well as the ordinary interest of the human rela- tions of loving and hating and betraying and serving ...
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... transfigures the ordinary detail . ' Realism ' we are told , ' is spiritualized through intensity of vision , attaining , in the highest examples , the quality of inwardness and becoming " intimism " ; and 15 The Unheroic Tragedy.
... transfigures the ordinary detail . ' Realism ' we are told , ' is spiritualized through intensity of vision , attaining , in the highest examples , the quality of inwardness and becoming " intimism " ; and 15 The Unheroic Tragedy.
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... ordinary sense —on transfiguration . Amos Barton and Hetty Sorrel are faithful portraits of human inadequacy , not ' transfigurations ' . Before beginning to suggest a few of the ways in which this intensification of ordinary things may ...
... ordinary sense —on transfiguration . Amos Barton and Hetty Sorrel are faithful portraits of human inadequacy , not ' transfigurations ' . Before beginning to suggest a few of the ways in which this intensification of ordinary things may ...
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