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Nevertheless something comes across of the object of Eliot's love: the elusive
personality of Shelia Knight, neurotic, destructive, pitiable, and yet oddly
engaging, is somehow caught and realised. She is almost the only one of Snow's
female ...
Nevertheless something comes across of the object of Eliot's love: the elusive
personality of Shelia Knight, neurotic, destructive, pitiable, and yet oddly
engaging, is somehow caught and realised. She is almost the only one of Snow's
female ...
Page 141
In some of the novels Eliot is not so much concerned with a succession of events
as with telling the story of some particular personality who is close to him. This,
for instance, is the basis of The Light and the Dark, a work which I can only
regard ...
In some of the novels Eliot is not so much concerned with a succession of events
as with telling the story of some particular personality who is close to him. This,
for instance, is the basis of The Light and the Dark, a work which I can only
regard ...
Page 146
Such observations tell one something about the personality of the mature Eliot. In
Time of Hope Sheila says to the young Eliot, 'You're not as nice as people think
you are', but one is inclined to reflect that one has very little idea how nice or ...
Such observations tell one something about the personality of the mature Eliot. In
Time of Hope Sheila says to the young Eliot, 'You're not as nice as people think
you are', but one is inclined to reflect that one has very little idea how nice or ...
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Contents
preface | 7 |
The Novel No Longer Novel | 11 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Situation of the Novel Critical essays in modern literature, ISSN 0070-153X |
| Author | Bernard Bergonzi |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | University of Pittsburgh Press, 1971 |
| ISBN | 0822932148, 9780822932147 |
| Length | 226 pages |
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