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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... completely different angles . The motif of the idiosyncratic will is treated in the fairy - tale parody , The Three Brothers , in which the three protagonists are compelled by their father's testamentary disposition to seek their ...
... completely different angles . The motif of the idiosyncratic will is treated in the fairy - tale parody , The Three Brothers , in which the three protagonists are compelled by their father's testamentary disposition to seek their ...
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... completely flabbergasts him . This young woman of the world completely eclipses her good- Junior , claiming that May's character is implausible , since a gentleman just would not forge a cheque . 34 The scene in Wives and Daughters in ...
... completely flabbergasts him . This young woman of the world completely eclipses her good- Junior , claiming that May's character is implausible , since a gentleman just would not forge a cheque . 34 The scene in Wives and Daughters in ...
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... completely selfless person , as is demonstrated by his behaviour in his own family . Salem Chapel also manages to strike an equilibrium between irony and empathy in the presentation of the Nonconformist minister , whose sense of mission ...
... completely selfless person , as is demonstrated by his behaviour in his own family . Salem Chapel also manages to strike an equilibrium between irony and empathy in the presentation of the Nonconformist minister , whose sense of mission ...
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Introduction | 1 |
FORMAL CONSIDERATIONS | 17 |
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