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 vii
... Perhaps I should add that it is material designed from the outset to form part of this book . I have to thank the staff of the British Museum Library , and the staff of Birkbeck College Library . The book had its origin in lectures ...
... Perhaps I should add that it is material designed from the outset to form part of this book . I have to thank the staff of the British Museum Library , and the staff of Birkbeck College Library . The book had its origin in lectures ...
Page 4
... perhaps often true that the novel , least sensuous of all forms of art , relies on this kind of formal assertiveness to give a satisfaction which may be felt separ- ately and strongly apart from the human material it is 4 Introduction.
... perhaps often true that the novel , least sensuous of all forms of art , relies on this kind of formal assertiveness to give a satisfaction which may be felt separ- ately and strongly apart from the human material it is 4 Introduction.
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... perhaps as readers too , if we do not see the way in which her words form part of her total pattern . It is only when we recognize the repetitions and formal converse of the imagery in Middle- march and Daniel Deronda that we begin to ...
... perhaps as readers too , if we do not see the way in which her words form part of her total pattern . It is only when we recognize the repetitions and formal converse of the imagery in Middle- march and Daniel Deronda that we begin to ...
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... perhaps a final recapitulatory reading when the novel was published in volume form . The reviewer in Blackwood's , December 1872 , insisted that Middlemarch must be read twice ; George Eliot may not have written with the serial ...
... perhaps a final recapitulatory reading when the novel was published in volume form . The reviewer in Blackwood's , December 1872 , insisted that Middlemarch must be read twice ; George Eliot may not have written with the serial ...
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... perhaps by the attentive critic . But very probably the reasons for the obscured formality are not so widely different : both in language and action , George Eliot's world has a quiet normality , and it is this quietness which , above ...
... perhaps by the attentive critic . But very probably the reasons for the obscured formality are not so widely different : both in language and action , George Eliot's world has a quiet normality , and it is this quietness which , above ...
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