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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... Scottish Review she was hailed as the greatest Scottish writer since Scott and put in the first row of secondary writers together with Trollope . Cornhill Magazine ranked her ahead of Charlotte Bronte , second only to Eliot.24 The ...
... Scottish Review she was hailed as the greatest Scottish writer since Scott and put in the first row of secondary writers together with Trollope . Cornhill Magazine ranked her ahead of Charlotte Bronte , second only to Eliot.24 The ...
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... Scottish society . However , such types had hardly found expression in English literature till then . Even among Oliphant's Scottish antecedents , only Galt's Leddy Grippy and Scott's Jeanie Deans offer points of comparison , but they ...
... Scottish society . However , such types had hardly found expression in English literature till then . Even among Oliphant's Scottish antecedents , only Galt's Leddy Grippy and Scott's Jeanie Deans offer points of comparison , but they ...
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... Scottish Kirk Oliphant's Scottish stories tell us more than her English novels about religious life in the communities , about prayer meetings , church services and the appointment of ministers . However , the author only rarely goes ...
... Scottish Kirk Oliphant's Scottish stories tell us more than her English novels about religious life in the communities , about prayer meetings , church services and the appointment of ministers . However , the author only rarely goes ...
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Introduction | 1 |
FORMAL CONSIDERATIONS | 17 |
17 | 51 |
Derechos de autor | |
Otras 6 secciones no mostradas
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Autobiography and Letters Beleaguered City Blackwood's Carlingford characterisation characters Church clichés Colby contemporaries Country Gentleman critics Cuckoo Curate in Charge daughter depiction despite Diana Trelawny Dickens Dissenters Doctor's Family Eliot Equivocal Virtue father feel female figures George Eliot ghost stories girl hero heroine House Divided husband idealised ironic John Drayton Junior Kirsteen Ladies Lindores Lady Car Leavis Lilliesleaf literary London Lucilla male Margaret Maitland Margaret Oliphant marriage Marriage of Elinor marry Mary Melvilles Merkland Minister's Wife Miss Marjoribanks mother motifs naive narrative narrator never Nonconformist oeuvre Oliphant's fiction Oliphant's novels Patty Perpetual Curate Phoebe plot poor Portrait presentation protagonist Q. D. Leavis Railwayman reader Rector religious role romantic romantic love Rose in June Salem Chapel Saturday Review Scottish sentimental Showalter social Spectator Stock Clarke sympathy Three Brothers traditional Tredgold Trollope typical Victorian fiction Victorian novel Williams woman women writers young