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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... claimed 10 This pettifogging bears less weight than the fact that Victorian reviewers often argued from the angle of morality and decorum , categories that in themselves have nothing to do with literary evaluation . The author was , as ...
... claimed 10 This pettifogging bears less weight than the fact that Victorian reviewers often argued from the angle of morality and decorum , categories that in themselves have nothing to do with literary evaluation . The author was , as ...
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... claiming that there were better writers than Oliphant , 26 Virginia Woolf , Three Guineas , 166 . 27 Peterson , 169 . 28 Cf. Showalter , 61 and 66. Many women writers stressed their " domesticity " and claimed to set their duties as ...
... claiming that there were better writers than Oliphant , 26 Virginia Woolf , Three Guineas , 166 . 27 Peterson , 169 . 28 Cf. Showalter , 61 and 66. Many women writers stressed their " domesticity " and claimed to set their duties as ...
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... claimed is also proved by numerous concise and witty pas- sages which constitute a convincing counterpart to her occasional lapses . She possesses an unfailing instinct for the revealing gesture , the typical word , the characteristic ...
... claimed is also proved by numerous concise and witty pas- sages which constitute a convincing counterpart to her occasional lapses . She possesses an unfailing instinct for the revealing gesture , the typical word , the characteristic ...
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Introduction | 1 |
FORMAL CONSIDERATIONS | 17 |
17 | 51 |
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