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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... concerns of the individual . It is characteristic of Mrs. Oliphant that she sees man's relationship to transcendence ... concern in her description of relig- ious denominations and factions is social comedy , she does not avoid facing ...
... concerns of the individual . It is characteristic of Mrs. Oliphant that she sees man's relationship to transcendence ... concern in her description of relig- ious denominations and factions is social comedy , she does not avoid facing ...
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... concern for his moral well - being , even withholds from him the name of the father she hates . Nonetheless , Pippo develops into the very model of a gentleman , showing the greatest understanding for his mother's behaviour when he ...
... concern for his moral well - being , even withholds from him the name of the father she hates . Nonetheless , Pippo develops into the very model of a gentleman , showing the greatest understanding for his mother's behaviour when he ...
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... concerned with questions of doctrine . Even in her historical account of the Scottish Reforma- tion , Magdalen Hepburn , she devotes her attention less to issues of faith than to the turbulent events of the time in which the ...
... concerned with questions of doctrine . Even in her historical account of the Scottish Reforma- tion , Magdalen Hepburn , she devotes her attention less to issues of faith than to the turbulent events of the time in which the ...
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Introduction | 1 |
FORMAL CONSIDERATIONS | 17 |
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