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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... things as plot and character and language . George Eliot had the special problem of using the novel as a tragic form . She speaks of attempting to write tragedy in the strict sense , and her formal contrivances are often made in the ...
... things as plot and character and language . George Eliot had the special problem of using the novel as a tragic form . She speaks of attempting to write tragedy in the strict sense , and her formal contrivances are often made in the ...
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... thing which contributes to its six hundred pages of story and scenes and events and characters and words and tone . I say ' may mean ' advisedly , because there are dead ends when we explore the units of pattern in literature as there ...
... thing which contributes to its six hundred pages of story and scenes and events and characters and words and tone . I say ' may mean ' advisedly , because there are dead ends when we explore the units of pattern in literature as there ...
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... thing I do not like is the habit of putting her characters at a distance as if to look at them making remarks on them ' ( Haight , v , p . 254 ) . But in the later novels in particular , there are many details which are not directly ...
... thing I do not like is the habit of putting her characters at a distance as if to look at them making remarks on them ' ( Haight , v , p . 254 ) . But in the later novels in particular , there are many details which are not directly ...
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... things may work , it is as well to say something about the nature of George Eliot's didactic aim . Whereas Lewes attacks ' detailism ' as the negation of truthful intensity , George Eliot attacks sentimentality as the negation of her ...
... things may work , it is as well to say something about the nature of George Eliot's didactic aim . Whereas Lewes attacks ' detailism ' as the negation of truthful intensity , George Eliot attacks sentimentality as the negation of her ...
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... things we may mean by sentimentality . Let us look at another instance of the direct address : It was happy for the Rev. Amos Barton that he did not , like us , overhear the conversation recorded in the last chapter . Indeed , what ...
... things we may mean by sentimentality . Let us look at another instance of the direct address : It was happy for the Rev. Amos Barton that he did not , like us , overhear the conversation recorded in the last chapter . Indeed , what ...
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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