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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... social cause and the social reaction but because 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 ...
... social cause and the social reaction but because 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 ...
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... social delineation . In order to recognize this we must put aside the simple notions of the lucid or single well - made story , and recognize that the form of the novel can mean the co - operation of a large number of forms within the ...
... social delineation . In order to recognize this we must put aside the simple notions of the lucid or single well - made story , and recognize that the form of the novel can mean the co - operation of a large number of forms within the ...
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... social status rather than on intelligence , sensi- bility and articulateness , and by making this emphasis he misses many of the variations both in George Eliot's choice of human material and in her attempt at a new kind of tragedy . It ...
... social status rather than on intelligence , sensi- bility and articulateness , and by making this emphasis he misses many of the variations both in George Eliot's choice of human material and in her attempt at a new kind of tragedy . It ...
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... social precision . Mario Praz gives us a strangely compiled list of Wordsworthian characters : it includes Rosamond Vincy and Gwendolen Harleth . I think it would surely be more useful to look for the Wordsworthian material and ...
... social precision . Mario Praz gives us a strangely compiled list of Wordsworthian characters : it includes Rosamond Vincy and Gwendolen Harleth . I think it would surely be more useful to look for the Wordsworthian material and ...
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... social lies , but she also attacks the more benevolent distortions of Dickens . It is in her review of Riehl's Die Bürgerliche Gesellschaft for The Westminster Review ( 1856 ) that her aims are most clearly stated . This was the year in ...
... social lies , but she also attacks the more benevolent distortions of Dickens . It is in her review of Riehl's Die Bürgerliche Gesellschaft for The Westminster Review ( 1856 ) that her aims are most clearly stated . This was the year in ...
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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