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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A Subversive View of Traditional Themes Margarete Rubik. called to his father's deathbed . His disillusionment and his dismay at being confronted with the bloated face of the dead man - so completely devoid of dignity and gravity - give ...
A Subversive View of Traditional Themes Margarete Rubik. called to his father's deathbed . His disillusionment and his dismay at being confronted with the bloated face of the dead man - so completely devoid of dignity and gravity - give ...
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... called " religious " in the narrower sense of the term . In the ap- prentice novel A Son of the Soil , the fictional biography of a Scot- tish minister is used to weigh the merits of different confessions . The Minister's Wife paints a ...
... called " religious " in the narrower sense of the term . In the ap- prentice novel A Son of the Soil , the fictional biography of a Scot- tish minister is used to weigh the merits of different confessions . The Minister's Wife paints a ...
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... called by her deceased husband . Stephen accused his contemporaries of putting sentiment in the stead of intellectual reflection . Victorian authors may have depicted all the tearful details of the event , but they avoided a direct ...
... called by her deceased husband . Stephen accused his contemporaries of putting sentiment in the stead of intellectual reflection . Victorian authors may have depicted all the tearful details of the event , but they avoided a direct ...
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Introduction | 1 |
FORMAL CONSIDERATIONS | 17 |
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