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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... Phoebe and , moreover , could only offer her a monotonous rustic idyll in his par- ish . Critics terming Phoebe's marriage to Copperhead " mercenary " and lamenting Oliphant's eschewal of a love - match are basically judging by the ...
... Phoebe and , moreover , could only offer her a monotonous rustic idyll in his par- ish . Critics terming Phoebe's marriage to Copperhead " mercenary " and lamenting Oliphant's eschewal of a love - match are basically judging by the ...
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... Phoebe , senior , is exposed in the novel Phoebe , Junior . Both characters hope to find admittance to the Establishment by means of their broad - minded outlook . But I cannot attempt to tell how much her social elevation modified her ...
... Phoebe , senior , is exposed in the novel Phoebe , Junior . Both characters hope to find admittance to the Establishment by means of their broad - minded outlook . But I cannot attempt to tell how much her social elevation modified her ...
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... ( Phoebe , 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 ...
... ( Phoebe , 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 ...
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Introduction | 1 |
FORMAL CONSIDERATIONS | 17 |
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