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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... Lord Hartmore takes pity on her and offers her his arm in support , thus according her the social recognition she craves . Patty stood by the grave all alone , and saw her hopes buried with real anguish . She fulfilled the part so well ...
... Lord Hartmore takes pity on her and offers her his arm in support , thus according her the social recognition she craves . Patty stood by the grave all alone , and saw her hopes buried with real anguish . She fulfilled the part so well ...
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... Lord bless me ! it's no a man , it's a principle we're thinking of . No , I deny that ; it's no an oath . ' Lord bless me ! ' is a prayer , if you will be at the bottom o't . We've muckle need of that . I say the presentee is of the ...
... Lord bless me ! it's no a man , it's a principle we're thinking of . No , I deny that ; it's no an oath . ' Lord bless me ! ' is a prayer , if you will be at the bottom o't . We've muckle need of that . I say the presentee is of the ...
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... Lord " has inexplicable power over his descendants , and with his sophistic arguments he makes virtue appear to be pure selfishness and calculation . So , over stretches of the story , Oliphant manages to convey an eerie atmosphere ...
... Lord " has inexplicable power over his descendants , and with his sophistic arguments he makes virtue appear to be pure selfishness and calculation . So , over stretches of the story , Oliphant manages to convey an eerie atmosphere ...
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Introduction | 1 |
FORMAL CONSIDERATIONS | 17 |
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