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 14
... sensibility , and moves away at the same time from pathos to tragedy . The humble character who is unusual in tragedy ( less because of his social class than because of his limited emotional capacity ) gradually makes way for the ...
... sensibility , and moves away at the same time from pathos to tragedy . The humble character who is unusual in tragedy ( less because of his social class than because of his limited emotional capacity ) gradually makes way for the ...
Page 15
... sensibility and the unheroic humble figure we miss the point . George Eliot's tragic characters are not so strikingly different from Shakespeare's . The truly unheroic tragic figure is there , in the later books , to universal- ize the ...
... sensibility and the unheroic humble figure we miss the point . George Eliot's tragic characters are not so strikingly different from Shakespeare's . The truly unheroic tragic figure is there , in the later books , to universal- ize the ...
Page 18
... sensibility , though when he needs to supplement the voice of Tom or Joseph he too uses his own comment . His attitude to his characters is very different from George Eliot's . He interrupts in order to emphasize his satire , not his ...
... sensibility , though when he needs to supplement the voice of Tom or Joseph he too uses his own comment . His attitude to his characters is very different from George Eliot's . He interrupts in order to emphasize his satire , not his ...
Page 19
... sensibilities and his helplessness . George Eliot has to do the analysis and the explanation for him . This analysis is combined very smoothly with the emotional appeal . The appeal is in fact made on behalf of the inarticulateness , so ...
... sensibilities and his helplessness . George Eliot has to do the analysis and the explanation for him . This analysis is combined very smoothly with the emotional appeal . The appeal is in fact made on behalf of the inarticulateness , so ...
Page 25
... sensibility . He is not made of the same stuff as Amos Barton . But Hetty Sorrel is , as one of George Eliot's reviewers recognized . Reviewing Daniel Deronda in The Edinburgh Review he wrote of Hetty , In most cases , when a human soul ...
... sensibility . He is not made of the same stuff as Amos Barton . But Hetty Sorrel is , as one of George Eliot's reviewers recognized . Reviewing Daniel Deronda in The Edinburgh Review he wrote of Hetty , In most cases , when a human soul ...
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