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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... Critics " , tracing the vicissitudes of her reputation and re- ferring to her controversial assessment . The first , general section will deal with aspects of narrative technique , style , plot and motifs , and is intended to give the ...
... Critics " , tracing the vicissitudes of her reputation and re- ferring to her controversial assessment . The first , general section will deal with aspects of narrative technique , style , plot and motifs , and is intended to give the ...
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... critics , failing to read the novels closely , assumed per se that all her stories were equally reactionary and overlooked the hidden protest against a woman's lot in much of Oliphant's better fiction . Having thus labelled and shelved ...
... critics , failing to read the novels closely , assumed per se that all her stories were equally reactionary and overlooked the hidden protest against a woman's lot in much of Oliphant's better fiction . Having thus labelled and shelved ...
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... critics have accused Oliphant of cynicism and misan- thropy , claiming that as she did not believe in heroism , she was in- capable of creating outstanding male figures . Such criticism tends to confuse literary and moral criteria . The ...
... critics have accused Oliphant of cynicism and misan- thropy , claiming that as she did not believe in heroism , she was in- capable of creating outstanding male figures . Such criticism tends to confuse literary and moral criteria . The ...
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Introduction | 1 |
FORMAL CONSIDERATIONS | 17 |
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