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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... Three Brothers ends with the observation that the story is basically a romance of the type popular with the reading public , with its naive predilection for love stories between youthful pro- tagonists , neglecting the more significant ...
... Three Brothers ends with the observation that the story is basically a romance of the type popular with the reading public , with its naive predilection for love stories between youthful pro- tagonists , neglecting the more significant ...
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... Three Brothers , Mrs. Mulgrave feels sympathy for girls who want to hook a rich man . Moreover , all three female narrators have the ability to accept the realities of life and to make no idealistic claims on their fellow men or even ...
... Three Brothers , Mrs. Mulgrave feels sympathy for girls who want to hook a rich man . Moreover , all three female narrators have the ability to accept the realities of life and to make no idealistic claims on their fellow men or even ...
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... Three Brothers , in which the three protagonists are compelled by their father's testamentary disposition to seek their fortune like the adventurers of fairy tales.12 The subject recurs in completely different form in The Greatest ...
... Three Brothers , in which the three protagonists are compelled by their father's testamentary disposition to seek their fortune like the adventurers of fairy tales.12 The subject recurs in completely different form in The Greatest ...
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Introduction | 1 |
FORMAL CONSIDERATIONS | 17 |
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