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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... story dies hard . Theodore Watts - Dunton , for instance , in his introduction to the World's Classics edition of Silas Marner , says : ' As a rule , however , she shows but a slight power over the great art of construction . And this ...
... story dies hard . Theodore Watts - Dunton , for instance , in his introduction to the World's Classics edition of Silas Marner , says : ' As a rule , however , she shows but a slight power over the great art of construction . And this ...
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... story and a realistic portrait . The pattern is there in George Eliot's human scene , as it is in Rembrandt's , but in both its presence is less naked and its function less dependent on the reader's immediate recognition than in more ...
... story and a realistic portrait . The pattern is there in George Eliot's human scene , as it is in Rembrandt's , but in both its presence is less naked and its function less dependent on the reader's immediate recognition than in more ...
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... story , and recognize that the form of the novel can mean the co - operation of a large number of forms within the novel . The form of the novel must certainly be thought of in terms of its flow and continuity , though this is by no ...
... story , and recognize that the form of the novel can mean the co - operation of a large number of forms within the novel . The form of the novel must certainly be thought of in terms of its flow and continuity , though this is by no ...
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... story be introduced , and to make way for it some scenes must be transposed to Part III . ( Haight , v , p . 224 ) Chapters xix - xxii were eventually transferred from Book III to Book Ii — they are the chapters describing the Casaubons ...
... story be introduced , and to make way for it some scenes must be transposed to Part III . ( Haight , v , p . 224 ) Chapters xix - xxii were eventually transferred from Book III to Book Ii — they are the chapters describing the Casaubons ...
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... story . We often speak , with the common - sense of metaphor , of the ' shape ' of the novel , meaning something more aesthetically assertive than the necessary manipulation of a well - made story . Pictorial and sculptural analogies of ...
... story . We often speak , with the common - sense of metaphor , of the ' shape ' of the novel , meaning something more aesthetically assertive than the necessary manipulation of a well - made story . Pictorial and sculptural analogies of ...
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