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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... father's second marriage : the son emigrates , the daughter seeks refuge in a loveless marriage . Family tensions also dominate Kirsteen : the father hardly both- ers about his children and treats the girls , in particular , with vulgar ...
... father's second marriage : the son emigrates , the daughter seeks refuge in a loveless marriage . Family tensions also dominate Kirsteen : the father hardly both- ers about his children and treats the girls , in particular , with vulgar ...
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... father , who wants to rob her of her inheritance . Children who courageously answer back to domineering fathers even enjoy Oliphant's undiluted respect . Kirsteen , for instance , not only refuses to marry the unloved suitor at her father's ...
... father , who wants to rob her of her inheritance . Children who courageously answer back to domineering fathers even enjoy Oliphant's undiluted respect . Kirsteen , for instance , not only refuses to marry the unloved suitor at her father's ...
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... father , who has brought about his son's moral ruin by neglecting him and denying him his love . Children who deem ... father's enterprise is the product of his inappropriately exclusive education . Oliphant does not find it surprising ...
... father , who has brought about his son's moral ruin by neglecting him and denying him his love . Children who deem ... father's enterprise is the product of his inappropriately exclusive education . Oliphant does not find it surprising ...
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Introduction | 1 |
FORMAL CONSIDERATIONS | 17 |
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