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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... child's moral welfare , no longer guaranteed in the circles of the immoral father , as a legitimate reason to break her marriage vows and to desert the child's father . All the same , at the end of the novel concessions are made to the ...
... child's moral welfare , no longer guaranteed in the circles of the immoral father , as a legitimate reason to break her marriage vows and to desert the child's father . All the same , at the end of the novel concessions are made to the ...
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... child . It was their sole link to the common life and sunshine of the world . I could not be a day from home without knowing that the house was desolate without me , nor show a special preference for any friend without feeling that even ...
... child . It was their sole link to the common life and sunshine of the world . I could not be a day from home without knowing that the house was desolate without me , nor show a special preference for any friend without feeling that even ...
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... children the focus of her attention . How sensitively she can render a child's mind , if she chooses to do so , is shown by The Son of his Father , the opening chapters of which are seen completely from the perspective of a seven - year ...
... children the focus of her attention . How sensitively she can render a child's mind , if she chooses to do so , is shown by The Son of his Father , the opening chapters of which are seen completely from the perspective of a seven - year ...
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Introduction | 1 |
FORMAL CONSIDERATIONS | 17 |
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