The Novels of Mrs. Oliphant: A Subversive View of Traditional ThemesP. Lang, 1994 - 343 páginas Margarete Oliphant (1828-1897) has long been decried as a conventional hack. This study shows that she was, in fact, an original and quite subversive writer, who radically re-interpreted traditional motifs and challenged values and ideals sacrosanct to the age. In her novels she turned upside down Victorian stereotypes of gender roles, marriage and family hierarchy, presented religious questions, death-bed scenes and the hereafter from a new and unconventional angle, and in her portrayal dispensed with models almost all of her contemporaries were content to follow. She deserves a permanent place in the gallery of nineteenth-century authors. |
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... Church of England the " latitude of belief ... [ of ] a church happily so far imperfect , that a man can put his life to best account in it , without absolutely delivering up his intel- lect to a set of doctrine " ( The Perpetual Curate ...
... Church of England the " latitude of belief ... [ of ] a church happily so far imperfect , that a man can put his life to best account in it , without absolutely delivering up his intel- lect to a set of doctrine " ( The Perpetual Curate ...
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... Church Oliphant re- frains from indulging in unjust polemic . That she does not share the prejudices of many of her ... Church On the whole the author was more benevolent to the High Church faction than the Low Church one , and supported ...
... Church Oliphant re- frains from indulging in unjust polemic . That she does not share the prejudices of many of her ... Church On the whole the author was more benevolent to the High Church faction than the Low Church one , and supported ...
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... Church clergymen , a submissiveness expressed in long - winded sermons on the benevolence and sublimity of the Mother Church rather than the Gospel of Christ . In The Perpetual Curate , Frank Wentworth preaches primarily about the ...
... Church clergymen , a submissiveness expressed in long - winded sermons on the benevolence and sublimity of the Mother Church rather than the Gospel of Christ . In The Perpetual Curate , Frank Wentworth preaches primarily about the ...
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Introduction | 1 |
FORMAL CONSIDERATIONS | 17 |
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