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| Named Person: | Thomas Carlyle; Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield; George Eliot; John Henry Newman; Matthew Arnold; Thomas Hardy; Thomas Carlyle; Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield; John Henry Newman; Matthew Arnold; Thomas Hardy |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
John Holloway |
| OCLC Number: | 1890865 |
| Notes: | Originally published: London : Macmillan & Co., c1953. |
| Description: | viii, 300 p. ; 20 cm. |
| Contents: | The Victorian sage : his message and methods -- Carlyle: 'Life-philosophy' knowledge ; The live cosmos ; The ocean rolling around the islet ; Shams and diabolisms ; The growth of metaphor ; The control of meaning ; Paradox and truism -- Carlyle as prophet-historian: Didactic history ; The French Revolution ; Frederick the Great -- Disraeli: Is Disraeli a sage at all? ; Tradition and change ; 'A motley sparkling multitude' ; Ideals and realities -- George Eliot: Preliminary : Silas Marner ; General features of the novels ; The basic selection ; The ethics ; The methods : character ; Incident and scene ; Situation and dialogue ; Metaphor ; The control of meaning -- Newman: The system of reality and knowledge ; The course of things ; Newman's personality and tone ; Forms of argument ; Illustrations : the Church and the world ; Imagery in Newman ; Suggestive example ; Control of meaning in Newman -- Matthew Arnold: Arnold's doctrine and temper ; Forms of argument ; The value frame ; Definitions ; Articulating the argument : Arnold and his opponents ; Irony -- Hardy: Introduction ; The course of things ; The system of nature ; Man and the system of nature ; Society, a microcosm of nature ; The human deviation -- Conclusion. |
| Series Title: | Norton library, N264 |
| Other Titles: | Philosophy and rhetoric in the work of Carlyle, Disraeli, George Eliot, Newman, Arnold & Hardy Studies in argument |
| Responsibility: | by John Holloway. |
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- Newman, John Henry, -- 1801-1890 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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- Hardy, Thomas, -- 1840-1928 -- Criticism and interpretation.
- Newman, John Henry, -- 1801-1890.
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