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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... human nature usually commingles sublime motives with less elevated ones . But human nature , so far as I know it , is a complicated business , and has few impulses which are perfectly single and unmixed in their motives . ( Innocent , I ...
... human nature usually commingles sublime motives with less elevated ones . But human nature , so far as I know it , is a complicated business , and has few impulses which are perfectly single and unmixed in their motives . ( Innocent , I ...
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... human mind by an assump- tion of superior piety ; and ... [ proof ] that lavish subscriptions to be- nevolent purposes , and attendance at prayer meetings , were the natural evidences of a mind disposed to prey on its fellow - creatures ...
... human mind by an assump- tion of superior piety ; and ... [ proof ] that lavish subscriptions to be- nevolent purposes , and attendance at prayer meetings , were the natural evidences of a mind disposed to prey on its fellow - creatures ...
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... human weaknesses and vanities . Hence she diverts the reader's attention from the anguish of death , stressed by many of her contemporaries , and focuses instead on the human inadequacies that inevitably ap- pear even in such earnest ...
... human weaknesses and vanities . Hence she diverts the reader's attention from the anguish of death , stressed by many of her contemporaries , and focuses instead on the human inadequacies that inevitably ap- pear even in such earnest ...
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Introduction | 1 |
FORMAL CONSIDERATIONS | 17 |
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