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 12
... tion in the process of the formal reading , like seeing trees bent out of shape by the prevailing wind . Her prevailing wind is the human egoism which may be damned or redeemed , and we make this generalization not because George Eliot ...
... tion in the process of the formal reading , like seeing trees bent out of shape by the prevailing wind . Her prevailing wind is the human egoism which may be damned or redeemed , and we make this generalization not because George Eliot ...
Page 33
... tion — an accompaniment which often overreaches itself and chills the reader . But if we do not always respond as warmly as his author seems to expect us to , it is not because he is a static character , nor because his rectitude is a ...
... tion — an accompaniment which often overreaches itself and chills the reader . But if we do not always respond as warmly as his author seems to expect us to , it is not because he is a static character , nor because his rectitude is a ...
Page 38
... tion beyond this initial egoism . It is the first version of the main theme of all the later novels . It is also George Eliot's first attempt to show a character changing , and in many ways it is very much less successful than the ...
... tion beyond this initial egoism . It is the first version of the main theme of all the later novels . It is also George Eliot's first attempt to show a character changing , and in many ways it is very much less successful than the ...
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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