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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... Death - bed scenes were decidedly popular in the nineteenth century . The Victorian novel just teems with the dying , funerals and grieving relatives . The deaths of Little Nell and Colonel Newcome , probably the most famous death ...
... Death - bed scenes were decidedly popular in the nineteenth century . The Victorian novel just teems with the dying , funerals and grieving relatives . The deaths of Little Nell and Colonel Newcome , probably the most famous death ...
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... death misses the point of the Christian message : it is not the conduct on the death - bed that decides the fate of the soul.7 Death of itself brings no everlasting condemnation ; it is for life to do that , the unconsidered hours which ...
... death misses the point of the Christian message : it is not the conduct on the death - bed that decides the fate of the soul.7 Death of itself brings no everlasting condemnation ; it is for life to do that , the unconsidered hours which ...
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... death traditional meta- phors lose all meaning . Man is incapable of imagining an altered state of being . He was departing ... curious and solitary ; not knowing where he was going . To God's presence ; ah , yes ! but what did that ...
... death traditional meta- phors lose all meaning . Man is incapable of imagining an altered state of being . He was departing ... curious and solitary ; not knowing where he was going . To God's presence ; ah , yes ! but what did that ...
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Introduction | 1 |
FORMAL CONSIDERATIONS | 17 |
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