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George Eliot: Her Mind and Her Art

George Eliot: Her Mind and Her Art

Paperback

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0521091748
ISBN13: 9780521091749
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Jan 1 1948
Pages: 220
Weight: 0.54
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Mrs Bennett finds in George Eliot's work the beginnings of certain modern developments of the novel, notably her respect for unity of design, her interest in the complexity of human personality and experience and beneath a contemporary naturalism, a feeling towards symbolic presentation. Some of the moral problems implicit in the character-studies and situations best the minds of the best of her contemporaries: some are still relevant. And an awareness of moral problems - a novelist's acceptance of novel-writing as a serious and responsible job - is now characteristic of the best modern fiction. The first three chapters of Bennett's book are biographical and deal chiefly with the formative years. The remaining eight, after defining in general George Eliot's qualities as a novelist, discuss the novels one by one and illustrate the deeper aspects of their author's outlook.

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