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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... girl's depression on saying farewell to the castle , the misled woman's remorseless fury , her blend of love and hatred for her husband , her tearless vigil at her father's deathbed ) gain their impact from a narrative perspective ...
... girl's depression on saying farewell to the castle , the misled woman's remorseless fury , her blend of love and hatred for her husband , her tearless vigil at her father's deathbed ) gain their impact from a narrative perspective ...
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... girl is fair game to whosoever has a stone to throw , ... · 39 In Neighbours on the Green , 4,84ff . , too , Oliphant , using the narrator as a mouthpiece , regrets the widespread intolerance towards girls who seek rich matches . and ...
... girl is fair game to whosoever has a stone to throw , ... · 39 In Neighbours on the Green , 4,84ff . , too , Oliphant , using the narrator as a mouthpiece , regrets the widespread intolerance towards girls who seek rich matches . and ...
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... girl constantly intrigues against her sister's forthcoming marriage . The mother yearns for the day she can finally leave the house and relish the freedom she has long been denied . - Conflicts of all kinds between father and son ...
... girl constantly intrigues against her sister's forthcoming marriage . The mother yearns for the day she can finally leave the house and relish the freedom she has long been denied . - Conflicts of all kinds between father and son ...
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Introduction | 1 |
FORMAL CONSIDERATIONS | 17 |
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