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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... shows tragedy as common experience . Her vision of humanity finds its own appropriate forms : comprehensive rather than selective , tentative rather than dogmatic . The largeness and comprehensiveness of her novels have meant that she ...
... shows tragedy as common experience . Her vision of humanity finds its own appropriate forms : comprehensive rather than selective , tentative rather than dogmatic . The largeness and comprehensiveness of her novels have meant that she ...
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... shows but a slight power over the great art of construction . And this gives an added importance to Silas Marner — the one story of hers which can be approached from the artistic point of view , for it has a plot and a very good one ...
... shows but a slight power over the great art of construction . And this gives an added importance to Silas Marner — the one story of hers which can be approached from the artistic point of view , for it has a plot and a very good one ...
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... show her interest in the unity of the novel as a whole rather than in the construction of separate tensions . Lewes wrote to Blackwood a few days before sending him the first part of the manuscript of Middlemarch : We have added on to ...
... show her interest in the unity of the novel as a whole rather than in the construction of separate tensions . Lewes wrote to Blackwood a few days before sending him the first part of the manuscript of Middlemarch : We have added on to ...
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... show the pairing and to underline it melodramatically , but also be- cause the characters themselves have the simple and striking resemblances and differences of simple and striking stereo- types . George Eliot's dramatic penetration ...
... show the pairing and to underline it melodramatically , but also be- cause the characters themselves have the simple and striking resemblances and differences of simple and striking stereo- types . George Eliot's dramatic penetration ...
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... show the dead face , but leaves it to us to hear the echo when , at the end of the novel , Gwendolen tells Daniel how she is haunted by Grandcourt's dead face . The oblique statements of formal relation , once recognized , do something ...
... show the dead face , but leaves it to us to hear the echo when , at the end of the novel , Gwendolen tells Daniel how she is haunted by Grandcourt's dead face . The oblique statements of formal relation , once recognized , do something ...
Contents
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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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