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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Barbara Hardy. the flow and continuity of her novels for many other reasons . And the flow of the narrative is itself only a part of the story . We often speak , with the common - sense of metaphor , of the ' shape ' of the novel ...
Barbara Hardy. the flow and continuity of her novels for many other reasons . And the flow of the narrative is itself only a part of the story . We often speak , with the common - sense of metaphor , of the ' shape ' of the novel ...
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... reasons , her formal use of imagery is also disguised . Her vocabulary and syntax are very much less eccentric and mannered than James's or Faulkner's , and so are less meticulously inspected by the reader or even perhaps by the ...
... reasons , her formal use of imagery is also disguised . Her vocabulary and syntax are very much less eccentric and mannered than James's or Faulkner's , and so are less meticulously inspected by the reader or even perhaps by the ...
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... reason why the explanation and analysis should not be provided outside the character , but the appeal for sympathy results in a kind of under - distancing which breaks aesthetic bounds . George Eliot intends it to break bounds , without ...
... reason why the explanation and analysis should not be provided outside the character , but the appeal for sympathy results in a kind of under - distancing which breaks aesthetic bounds . George Eliot intends it to break bounds , without ...
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... reason why the story seems to me to be so much better than the other two , where there is more of a gap between theme and narrative . Milly's death is Amos's personal crisis but it is also the climax of the theme of social conflict ...
... reason why the story seems to me to be so much better than the other two , where there is more of a gap between theme and narrative . Milly's death is Amos's personal crisis but it is also the climax of the theme of social conflict ...
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... reason in what thee say'st , Adam , ' observed Seth , gravely . ' But thee know'st thyself as it's hearing the preachers thee find'st so much fault with as has turned many an idle fellow into an industrious ' un . ' ( ch . i ) Seth is ...
... reason in what thee say'st , Adam , ' observed Seth , gravely . ' But thee know'st thyself as it's hearing the preachers thee find'st so much fault with as has turned many an idle fellow into an industrious ' un . ' ( ch . i ) Seth is ...
Contents
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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