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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... course , correct when he remarks that it would be naive to believe , like Lily , that you can always find a benefactor when you are in need of one . Ironically , however , the girl indeed meets a friend in London , who takes care of her ...
... course , correct when he remarks that it would be naive to believe , like Lily , that you can always find a benefactor when you are in need of one . Ironically , however , the girl indeed meets a friend in London , who takes care of her ...
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... course of events afterwards , and retained some power of suggesting , at least , what ought to be done . But even under the most favourable view , the hereafter for which we hope , was not likely , Mr. Trevor felt , to permit any active ...
... course of events afterwards , and retained some power of suggesting , at least , what ought to be done . But even under the most favourable view , the hereafter for which we hope , was not likely , Mr. Trevor felt , to permit any active ...
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... course , last forever , as the narrator comments sardonically and coldly : “ But to be sure , her tears were dried , like all other tears , after a while " ( Lady Car , 16,298 ) . Other characters also mourn for a deceased relative ...
... course , last forever , as the narrator comments sardonically and coldly : “ But to be sure , her tears were dried , like all other tears , after a while " ( Lady Car , 16,298 ) . Other characters also mourn for a deceased relative ...
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Introduction | 1 |
FORMAL CONSIDERATIONS | 17 |
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