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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... husbands , 13 Lady Car continues to view her brutal first husband with unabated repugnance . Her feelings of nausea and sexual violation , as she had to comply with her repulsive husband's desires at his bidding , are illustrated by her ...
... husbands , 13 Lady Car continues to view her brutal first husband with unabated repugnance . Her feelings of nausea and sexual violation , as she had to comply with her repulsive husband's desires at his bidding , are illustrated by her ...
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... husband's magnum opus , attempts desperately , but in vain , to reawaken his enthusiasm for the visions he has lost ... husband and her dull children , and for wanting to solicit pity for a passive , indeed even parasitic form of life ...
... husband's magnum opus , attempts desperately , but in vain , to reawaken his enthusiasm for the visions he has lost ... husband and her dull children , and for wanting to solicit pity for a passive , indeed even parasitic form of life ...
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... husband is equally astonishing . Like Anne Bronte in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall , in The Marriage of Elinor Oliphant also accepts a mother's concern for a child's moral welfare , no longer guaranteed in the circles of the immoral ...
... husband is equally astonishing . Like Anne Bronte in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall , in The Marriage of Elinor Oliphant also accepts a mother's concern for a child's moral welfare , no longer guaranteed in the circles of the immoral ...
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Introduction | 1 |
FORMAL CONSIDERATIONS | 17 |
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