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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... girls ' clean and colourful clothing and significantly diverts attention away from their bare feet , the symptoms of poverty , and straight to their elaborate coiffures . For Kirsteen , work is a reason to envy these girls their ...
... girls ' clean and colourful clothing and significantly diverts attention away from their bare feet , the symptoms of poverty , and straight to their elaborate coiffures . For Kirsteen , work is a reason to envy these girls their ...
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... girls , who can only escape from the confines of their homes by means of marriage . Since mar- riage was usually a woman's only means of rising in the world and affecting something , the author does not find it either surprising or ...
... girls , who can only escape from the confines of their homes by means of marriage . Since mar- riage was usually a woman's only means of rising in the world and affecting something , the author does not find it either surprising or ...
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... girl taught all her life , like Dickens ' Edith Dombey , to consider a wealthy man her only raison d'être . Beatrice Trevelyan ... girls who change their suitors like their underwear and bestow their affections on any Tom , Dick or Harry ...
... girl taught all her life , like Dickens ' Edith Dombey , to consider a wealthy man her only raison d'être . Beatrice Trevelyan ... girls who change their suitors like their underwear and bestow their affections on any Tom , Dick or Harry ...
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Introduction | 1 |
FORMAL CONSIDERATIONS | 17 |
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