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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... Junior , or The Greatest Heiress in England all have no plot in the narrow sense of the word , but consist of a series of humorous scenes satirically highlighting various facets of social reality at the time . Hence , in her best work ...
... Junior , or The Greatest Heiress in England all have no plot in the narrow sense of the word , but consist of a series of humorous scenes satirically highlighting various facets of social reality at the time . Hence , in her best work ...
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... Junior , Oliphant also contrasts the intact world of Yonge's The Daisy Chain with her own , much more complicated view of a different Rev. May's family , one afflicted by jealousy , strife and egotism . - The extent to which Oliphant ...
... Junior , Oliphant also contrasts the intact world of Yonge's The Daisy Chain with her own , much more complicated view of a different Rev. May's family , one afflicted by jealousy , strife and egotism . - The extent to which Oliphant ...
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... Junior , 1 , 6 ) Phoebe , Junior is set in the same Dissenting community of Carlingford , but twenty years later . The social structure of the con- gregation has not changed ; they are still recruited from the lower middle classes and ...
... Junior , 1 , 6 ) Phoebe , Junior is set in the same Dissenting community of Carlingford , but twenty years later . The social structure of the con- gregation has not changed ; they are still recruited from the lower middle classes and ...
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Introduction | 1 |
FORMAL CONSIDERATIONS | 17 |
17 | 51 |
Derechos de autor | |
Otras 6 secciones no mostradas
Términos y frases comunes
Autobiography and Letters Beleaguered City Blackwood's Carlingford characterisation characters Church clichés Colby contemporaries Country Gentleman critics Cuckoo Curate in Charge daughter depiction despite Diana Trelawny Dickens Dissenters Doctor's Family Eliot Equivocal Virtue father feel female figures George Eliot ghost stories girl hero heroine House Divided husband idealised ironic John Drayton Junior Kirsteen Ladies Lindores Lady Car Leavis Lilliesleaf literary London Lucilla male Margaret Maitland Margaret Oliphant marriage Marriage of Elinor marry Mary Melvilles Merkland Minister's Wife Miss Marjoribanks mother motifs naive narrative narrator never Nonconformist oeuvre Oliphant's fiction Oliphant's novels Patty Perpetual Curate Phoebe plot poor Portrait presentation protagonist Q. D. Leavis Railwayman reader Rector religious role romantic romantic love Rose in June Salem Chapel Saturday Review Scottish sentimental Showalter social Spectator Stock Clarke sympathy Three Brothers traditional Tredgold Trollope typical Victorian fiction Victorian novel Williams woman women writers young