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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Barbara Hardy. This page intentionally left blank CONTENTS Introduction 1. The Unheroic Tragedy II . The Tragic.
Barbara Hardy. This page intentionally left blank CONTENTS Introduction 1. The Unheroic Tragedy II . The Tragic.
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... Tragic Process : The Heroines IV . The Tragic Process : The Egoists v . Character and Form VI . Plot and Form VII . Possibilities VIII . The Author's Voice : Intimate , Prophetic , and Dramatic IX . The Scene as Image x . The Pathetic ...
... Tragic Process : The Heroines IV . The Tragic Process : The Egoists v . Character and Form VI . Plot and Form VII . Possibilities VIII . The Author's Voice : Intimate , Prophetic , and Dramatic IX . The Scene as Image x . The Pathetic ...
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... tragic form . She speaks of attempting to write tragedy in the strict sense , and her formal contrivances are often made in the interests of her version of tragedy . She describes herself as urging ' the human sanctities through tragedy ...
... tragic form . She speaks of attempting to write tragedy in the strict sense , and her formal contrivances are often made in the interests of her version of tragedy . She describes herself as urging ' the human sanctities through tragedy ...
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... Tragic Muse , of the ' large loose baggy monsters ' of The Newcomes and War and Peace , and describes Middlemarch , in a review , as ' a treasure - house of detail , but an indifferent whole ' . James was probably more interested in ...
... Tragic Muse , of the ' large loose baggy monsters ' of The Newcomes and War and Peace , and describes Middlemarch , in a review , as ' a treasure - house of detail , but an indifferent whole ' . James was probably more interested in ...
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... tragic statement . Her characters are so organized that the reader makes the moral generaliza- 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 ...
... tragic statement . Her characters are so organized that the reader makes the moral generaliza- 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 ...
Contents
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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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