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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... domestic bliss . However , not all of them embark on marriage with the sang - froid of a Phoebe , a Bice or a Marian Row- land , and they do not find it easy to step down from the pinnacle of an idealised relationship , to accept the ...
... domestic bliss . However , not all of them embark on marriage with the sang - froid of a Phoebe , a Bice or a Marian Row- land , and they do not find it easy to step down from the pinnacle of an idealised relationship , to accept the ...
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... domestic myth . On the contrary , she realises the problematic nature of Car's immature idealism , and in many other novels she draws women who are not dependent on marriage and the family for their self - esteem . Car , on the other ...
... domestic myth . On the contrary , she realises the problematic nature of Car's immature idealism , and in many other novels she draws women who are not dependent on marriage and the family for their self - esteem . Car , on the other ...
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... domestic scenes , she does not palliate death by offering sentimental escapism ; she avoids high - flying sentiment and dampens the pathos by idealising neither the sick nor their relatives . She does not seduce the reader into ...
... domestic scenes , she does not palliate death by offering sentimental escapism ; she avoids high - flying sentiment and dampens the pathos by idealising neither the sick nor their relatives . She does not seduce the reader into ...
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Introduction | 1 |
FORMAL CONSIDERATIONS | 17 |
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