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 1
... sometimes seems to depend more on pity than on any other emotion , presenting ordinary rather than extraordinary heroes , though much less consistently than Mario Praz , in The Hero in Eclipse in Victorian Fiction , would have us ...
... sometimes seems to depend more on pity than on any other emotion , presenting ordinary rather than extraordinary heroes , though much less consistently than Mario Praz , in The Hero in Eclipse in Victorian Fiction , would have us ...
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... sometimes equated the multiple plot with accidentality and formal carelessness ; George Eliot's view of narrative tension was certainly a looser and more generous one than James's , but she hoped that every detail in Middlemarch had its ...
... sometimes equated the multiple plot with accidentality and formal carelessness ; George Eliot's view of narrative tension was certainly a looser and more generous one than James's , but she hoped that every detail in Middlemarch had its ...
Page 12
... sometimes objected to her commentary . 1 There are of course some striking modern examples of the author's presence — in Thomas Mann and Andre Gide . Some of her reviewers criticized it . Joseph Langford said 12 Introduction.
... sometimes objected to her commentary . 1 There are of course some striking modern examples of the author's presence — in Thomas Mann and Andre Gide . Some of her reviewers criticized it . Joseph Langford said 12 Introduction.
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... sometimes they carry an echo of Gwendolen's casual and ' civilized ' anti - Semitism . ' I am sure he had a nose ' , says Henry James's Pulcheria . It is not always the humble material itself which makes the reader uneasy . It is often ...
... sometimes they carry an echo of Gwendolen's casual and ' civilized ' anti - Semitism . ' I am sure he had a nose ' , says Henry James's Pulcheria . It is not always the humble material itself which makes the reader uneasy . It is often ...
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... sometimes successful . It can be used with a cool and restrained irony . It can modulate with more tact and skill from particular to general . It can in fact avoid that exaggeration of the particular case which is one of the things we ...
... sometimes successful . It can be used with a cool and restrained irony . It can modulate with more tact and skill from particular to general . It can in fact avoid that exaggeration of the particular case which is one of the things we ...
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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