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The truthtellers : Jane Austen, George Eliot, D.H. Lawrence

Title: The truthtellers : Jane Austen, George Eliot, D.H. Lawrence / Laurence Lerner.
Author: Lerner, Laurence
Publication: New York : Schocken Books, 1967.

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291 pages; 23 cm

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Contents

Part one. The truthtellers. The absence of God in Jane Austen -- The absence of God in George Eliot -- George Eliot's beliefs -- The influence of a noble nature: Felix Holt -- The influence of a noble nature: Daniel Deronda -- The effects of conversion: novel v drama -- The absence of God in Lawrence -- The carbon of the unconscious -- Lawrence's carbon -- Telling the truth -- Exposing self-deception -- Emma, or The match-maker -- Consequences of truthtelling -- Literature and Psychology -- Tess of the D'Urbervilles: a behaviourist complaint -- The unobservant angels.
Part two. Impulse and control. Jane Austen. "A child should be of the party" -- "Facts are such horrid things" -- First objection: Jane Austen and love -- Second objection: the anti-Jane -- Persuasion: a novel by the anti-Jane -- D.H. Lawrence. The Plumed Serpent: the pernicious and the bad -- The dialectic: blood and mind -- The dialectic exemplified: St. Mawr -- The articulateness of Women in Love -- Two tales -- Never trust the artist -- What Lawrence rejects -- "How beastly the bourgeois is": Lawrence's poetry -- What Lawrence accepts -- The personal and the public: is Lawrence a Fascist? -- George Eliot. Impulse in George Eliot -- The double contrast of Romola -- Dorothea and the Theresa-complex -- The Mill on the Floss: "Which is the way home?"

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67012148

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Princeton University Library