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
... true that her tragedy does not rest on special cases but tries to concern itself with the common human condition . Her novels are social tragedy not merely because she tries to expose the social cause and the social reaction but because ...
... true that her tragedy does not rest on special cases but tries to concern itself with the common human condition . Her novels are social tragedy not merely because she tries to expose the social cause and the social reaction but because ...
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... true that the novel , least sensuous of all forms of art , relies on this kind of formal assertiveness to give a satisfaction which may be felt separ- ately and strongly apart from the human material it is 4 Introduction.
... true that the novel , least sensuous of all forms of art , relies on this kind of formal assertiveness to give a satisfaction which may be felt separ- ately and strongly apart from the human material it is 4 Introduction.
Page 5
... true that , as in a representational picture with a conspicuously balanced composition , the de- light in the unity and variety and symmetry is only a part of the total response . George Eliot's composition is usually as complex and as ...
... true that , as in a representational picture with a conspicuously balanced composition , the de- light in the unity and variety and symmetry is only a part of the total response . George Eliot's composition is usually as complex and as ...
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... true that the human delineation is the part of a novel to which the reader gives most scrupulous attention , but here again we lose something if we read the story — and here I would include with the story what George Eliot thought of as ...
... true that the human delineation is the part of a novel to which the reader gives most scrupulous attention , but here again we lose something if we read the story — and here I would include with the story what George Eliot thought of as ...
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... true to say , as Praz does , that she was con- cerned with bourgeois tragedy . But this is only in some of her novels . Her concept of tragedy is a changing one , and even within a single novel her sense of human flux and indivi ...
... true to say , as Praz does , that she was con- cerned with bourgeois tragedy . But this is only in some of her novels . Her concept of tragedy is a changing one , and even within a single novel her sense of human flux and indivi ...
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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