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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... ideal of the Victorian girl is utterly rejected and exposed as being superficial , selfish and , at bottom , malevolent . Placid Ombra in the novel of the same name , seeming so perfectly to tally with the ideal of the age , turns out ...
... ideal of the Victorian girl is utterly rejected and exposed as being superficial , selfish and , at bottom , malevolent . Placid Ombra in the novel of the same name , seeming so perfectly to tally with the ideal of the age , turns out ...
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... ideal of a cricket on the hearth , but the biblical model of womanhood . Strength and honour are her clothing ; she opens her mouth with wis- dom , and in her lips is the law of kindness . ( Merkland , II , 2,39 ) It is interesting to ...
... ideal of a cricket on the hearth , but the biblical model of womanhood . Strength and honour are her clothing ; she opens her mouth with wis- dom , and in her lips is the law of kindness . ( Merkland , II , 2,39 ) It is interesting to ...
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... ideal in character . ( Sir Tom , 34,344 ) On the issue of mercenary marriages , branded as immoral in Victorian fiction , Oliphant assumes a stance opposed to the spirit of the age . She goes far beyond her admired predecessor Jane ...
... ideal in character . ( Sir Tom , 34,344 ) On the issue of mercenary marriages , branded as immoral in Victorian fiction , Oliphant assumes a stance opposed to the spirit of the age . She goes far beyond her admired predecessor Jane ...
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Introduction | 1 |
FORMAL CONSIDERATIONS | 17 |
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