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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... readers I have given references to modern continuous chapter numbering , except in the case of The Mill on the Floss , where most later editions still retain the original chapter numbering within books . SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY WORKS BY ...
... readers I have given references to modern continuous chapter numbering , except in the case of The Mill on the Floss , where most later editions still retain the original chapter numbering within books . SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY WORKS BY ...
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... reader's immediate recognition than in more stylized and less realistic art . In many later novels it is essential to ... reading . We read the encounter in terms of ironical antithesis — the son looking for a father , the father for a ...
... reader's immediate recognition than in more stylized and less realistic art . In many later novels it is essential to ... reading . We read the encounter in terms of ironical antithesis — the son looking for a father , the father for a ...
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... reader , reacting by guessing and wondering . After reading the first two volumes , where , we might well suppose , the accumulating hints pointed very clearly to Jermyn as Mrs Transome's old lover and even as Harold's father ...
... reader , reacting by guessing and wondering . After reading the first two volumes , where , we might well suppose , the accumulating hints pointed very clearly to Jermyn as Mrs Transome's old lover and even as Harold's father ...
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... reader guessing , 1 but very much more concerned with balance and continuity . She gave up £ 3,000 rather than divide Romola into sixteen parts , instead of fourteen , for its serial publication in The Cornhill . Some alterations were ...
... reader guessing , 1 but very much more concerned with balance and continuity . She gave up £ 3,000 rather than divide Romola into sixteen parts , instead of fourteen , for its serial publication in The Cornhill . Some alterations were ...
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... reader in suspense about the reactions of Rosamond and Mrs Bulstrode to the disgrace which has fallen on both their ... readers to structural defect : ' The arrangement of the groups , their mutual connexion , and their relations in ...
... reader in suspense about the reactions of Rosamond and Mrs Bulstrode to the disgrace which has fallen on both their ... readers to structural defect : ' The arrangement of the groups , their mutual connexion , and their relations in ...
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