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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... Oliphant's identification with the feelings and anxieties of her fictional kin is so strong that it sometimes leads to sentimentalised characterisation . Understandably , Oliphant's biographers have dwelled on these novels with ...
... Oliphant's identification with the feelings and anxieties of her fictional kin is so strong that it sometimes leads to sentimentalised characterisation . Understandably , Oliphant's biographers have dwelled on these novels with ...
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... Oliphant's novel , too , the dying man's last words express yearning for the sweetheart of his youth ; but it is his wife who is standing by his bed , and she understandably shows little sympathy for such ro- mantic fidelity . A very ...
... Oliphant's novel , too , the dying man's last words express yearning for the sweetheart of his youth ; but it is his wife who is standing by his bed , and she understandably shows little sympathy for such ro- mantic fidelity . A very ...
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... Oliphant's novels ecstatic joy at a child's birth is often offset by frustration with the growing children . Mrs ... Oliphant's uncritical identification with Lady Car and her unwar- ranted sympathy with Lady Car's neurotic relationship ...
... Oliphant's novels ecstatic joy at a child's birth is often offset by frustration with the growing children . Mrs ... Oliphant's uncritical identification with Lady Car and her unwar- ranted sympathy with Lady Car's neurotic relationship ...
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Introduction | 1 |
FORMAL CONSIDERATIONS | 17 |
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