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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... Despite the many conventional aspects of her novels , Oliphant is far more than a literary version of Mrs. Severn with her trashy pictures , or of Mr. Sandford with his well - finished , but meaningless paintings . Despite her business ...
... Despite the many conventional aspects of her novels , Oliphant is far more than a literary version of Mrs. Severn with her trashy pictures , or of Mr. Sandford with his well - finished , but meaningless paintings . Despite her business ...
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... despite the protests of her publisher Blackwood.13 And now he comes ! Ah ! fair , high , royal face , in whose beauty lurks this look , like the doubtful marsh , under its mossy , brilliant verdure - this look of wandering imbecile ...
... despite the protests of her publisher Blackwood.13 And now he comes ! Ah ! fair , high , royal face , in whose beauty lurks this look , like the doubtful marsh , under its mossy , brilliant verdure - this look of wandering imbecile ...
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... despite her occasional employment of certain stereotypes , is dem- onstrated by her jibe in A Son of the Soil at the ludicrous arguments of those who would use the fraudulence of a single bigot as an ex- cuse to despise all Evangelicals ...
... despite her occasional employment of certain stereotypes , is dem- onstrated by her jibe in A Son of the Soil at the ludicrous arguments of those who would use the fraudulence of a single bigot as an ex- cuse to despise all Evangelicals ...
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Introduction | 1 |
FORMAL CONSIDERATIONS | 17 |
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