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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... Letters , 131 ) for the equivocal virtue of her industry . When I die I know what people will say of me : they will give me credit for courage ... and for honesty and honourable dealing ; they will say I did my duty with a kind of ...
... Letters , 131 ) for the equivocal virtue of her industry . When I die I know what people will say of me : they will give me credit for courage ... and for honesty and honourable dealing ; they will say I did my duty with a kind of ...
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... Letters , 7 ) . Nevertheless , Oliphant's remarks did not always testify to such humility . She vehemently rejected assertions that she had attempted to emulate George Eliot's Adam Bede ( Autobiography and Letters , 185f . ) and asked ...
... Letters , 7 ) . Nevertheless , Oliphant's remarks did not always testify to such humility . She vehemently rejected assertions that she had attempted to emulate George Eliot's Adam Bede ( Autobiography and Letters , 185f . ) and asked ...
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... letters and documents , justly attribute John Drayton , The Melvilles , Christian Melville and Ailieford to Oliphant . Christian Melville , the last of these books to be pub- lished , was presumably the first to be written , when the ...
... letters and documents , justly attribute John Drayton , The Melvilles , Christian Melville and Ailieford to Oliphant . Christian Melville , the last of these books to be pub- lished , was presumably the first to be written , when the ...
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Introduction | 1 |
FORMAL CONSIDERATIONS | 17 |
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