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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... author is blurred , the author's opinions can be discerned behind those of the narrator . However , in Oliphant's novels the narrative voice fuses with the author to a greater degree than with most of her contemporaries . Of course , as ...
... author is blurred , the author's opinions can be discerned behind those of the narrator . However , in Oliphant's novels the narrative voice fuses with the author to a greater degree than with most of her contemporaries . Of course , as ...
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... author by com- paring them with other statements made by Oliphant . But even where parallels between the novels and Oliphant's other works are not forthcoming , the very consistency of the judgements made by the omniscient narrator in ...
... author by com- paring them with other statements made by Oliphant . But even where parallels between the novels and Oliphant's other works are not forthcoming , the very consistency of the judgements made by the omniscient narrator in ...
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... authors , Oliphant occasionally puts private opin- ions into the mouths of fictional characters , using them to make the norms of the implicit author clear . Such a device can be assumed whenever a character expresses views also held by ...
... authors , Oliphant occasionally puts private opin- ions into the mouths of fictional characters , using them to make the norms of the implicit author clear . Such a device can be assumed whenever a character expresses views also held by ...
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Introduction | 1 |
FORMAL CONSIDERATIONS | 17 |
17 | 51 |
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