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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... Heart of Midlothian.4 Although Oliphant frequently emphasises the fictional nature of the narration , she is , paradoxically , eager to uphold the illusion of verisimilitude , especially where factual information is concerned . This ...
... Heart of Midlothian.4 Although Oliphant frequently emphasises the fictional nature of the narration , she is , paradoxically , eager to uphold the illusion of verisimilitude , especially where factual information is concerned . This ...
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... heart - " I have never seen the right- eous forsaken , nor his seed begging their bread . Providence will raise up friends for the children " ( The Curate in Charge , 6,54 ) - is actually only a symptom of the indolence with which he ...
... heart - " I have never seen the right- eous forsaken , nor his seed begging their bread . Providence will raise up friends for the children " ( The Curate in Charge , 6,54 ) - is actually only a symptom of the indolence with which he ...
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... heart he was half ashamed . St. Roque was very fair to see that Easter morning . Above the commun- ion - table , with all its sacred vessels , the carved oaken cross of the reredos was wreathed tenderly with white fragrant festoons of ...
... heart he was half ashamed . St. Roque was very fair to see that Easter morning . Above the commun- ion - table , with all its sacred vessels , the carved oaken cross of the reredos was wreathed tenderly with white fragrant festoons of ...
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Introduction | 1 |
FORMAL CONSIDERATIONS | 17 |
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