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Chapter 12 - George Eliot’s Rhythms

from Part II - Authors

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2021

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Daniel Tyler
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Daniel Tyler
Daniel Tyler
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University of Cambridge
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This chapter considers the rhythms of George Eliot’s prose; it shows that George Eliot had a fine ear for the cadences of her writing and that she controlled the fluency and blockage in the progress of her sentences to variously suggestive effects. Her rhythmical prose responds to the balance her realism strikes between immediate description and reflective narration, between dreamy ideals and difficult realities. The tension that her characters experience between a willingness to struggle on and a desire to relent is also registered in the fluency and friction of her sentences.

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Scenes of Clerical LifeThe Mill on the Flossphilologylinguisticscadenceacousticssoundirregularityfrictionfluency
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On Style in Victorian Fiction , pp. 209 - 226
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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