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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... Perpetual Curate , 10,97 ) In such passages Oliphant's style is decidedly aphoristic . However , some of the ... Perpetual Curate , 15,141 ) Many of Oliphant's novels show her delight in plays on words , in humorous remarks and in the ...
... Perpetual Curate , 10,97 ) In such passages Oliphant's style is decidedly aphoristic . However , some of the ... Perpetual Curate , 15,141 ) Many of Oliphant's novels show her delight in plays on words , in humorous remarks and in the ...
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... Perpetual Curate , who has waited for ten years to become married , is made painfully aware of his innate flaws . The real rector to whom she was married was so different from the ideal one who courted her . ( The Perpetual Curate ...
... Perpetual Curate , who has waited for ten years to become married , is made painfully aware of his innate flaws . The real rector to whom she was married was so different from the ideal one who courted her . ( The Perpetual Curate ...
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... Perpetual Curate , Mrs. Kirkman in Madonna Mary , or Meredith in A Son of the Soil , are convinced that God has laid the salvation of the world into their safe hands and hence is under the obligation to carry their cause to victory , be ...
... Perpetual Curate , Mrs. Kirkman in Madonna Mary , or Meredith in A Son of the Soil , are convinced that God has laid the salvation of the world into their safe hands and hence is under the obligation to carry their cause to victory , be ...
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Introduction | 1 |
FORMAL CONSIDERATIONS | 17 |
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