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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... able to drop out of her stronghold of love as soon as she knows how little worthy of it is the fascinating , delightful , false Greek . ( “ A Widow's Tale " , 9,49 ) In her discussion of the novel Oliphant argues along the same lines ...
... able to drop out of her stronghold of love as soon as she knows how little worthy of it is the fascinating , delightful , false Greek . ( “ A Widow's Tale " , 9,49 ) In her discussion of the novel Oliphant argues along the same lines ...
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... able to arouse the reader's interest . In Heart and Cross , a confused novel that is incomprehensible without knowledge of its predecessors , the narrative perspective is also inadequate , for the device of giving Clare information ...
... able to arouse the reader's interest . In Heart and Cross , a confused novel that is incomprehensible without knowledge of its predecessors , the narrative perspective is also inadequate , for the device of giving Clare information ...
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... able to admire Roger , however much she tried , nor to look up to him , nor even trust him much . ... and yet , withal , she had not ceased to love him , and stand by him with all her might , which won- derful problem of humanity is one ...
... able to admire Roger , however much she tried , nor to look up to him , nor even trust him much . ... and yet , withal , she had not ceased to love him , and stand by him with all her might , which won- derful problem of humanity is one ...
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Introduction | 1 |
FORMAL CONSIDERATIONS | 17 |
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