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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... interest in " female characters who in real life would by no means deserve unqualified approbation . " 19 Even a modern critic like Watson calls a figure like Phoebe a " less admirable character than a Dorothea Brooke " on account of ...
... interest in " female characters who in real life would by no means deserve unqualified approbation . " 19 Even a modern critic like Watson calls a figure like Phoebe a " less admirable character than a Dorothea Brooke " on account of ...
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... interest in a question which it is impossible to believe could fail to interest them but for this coercion.48 The problem of working women , dealt with in such varied ways in her fiction , originally seemed easy to solve by arguing that ...
... interest in a question which it is impossible to believe could fail to interest them but for this coercion.48 The problem of working women , dealt with in such varied ways in her fiction , originally seemed easy to solve by arguing that ...
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... interests . Nancy's gaudy clothing , her lack of interest in French culture and her vulgar behaviour in public turn the honeymoon in Paris into one long nightmare for the bridegroom , who learns to his bewilderment that love alone will ...
... interests . Nancy's gaudy clothing , her lack of interest in French culture and her vulgar behaviour in public turn the honeymoon in Paris into one long nightmare for the bridegroom , who learns to his bewilderment that love alone will ...
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Introduction | 1 |
FORMAL CONSIDERATIONS | 17 |
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Autobiography and Letters Beleaguered City Blackwood's Carlingford characterisation characters Church clichés Colby contemporaries Country Gentleman critics Cuckoo Curate in Charge daughter depiction despite Diana Trelawny Dickens Dissenters Doctor's Family Eliot Equivocal Virtue father feel female figures George Eliot ghost stories girl hero heroine House Divided husband idealised ironic John Drayton Junior Kirsteen Ladies Lindores Lady Car Leavis Lilliesleaf literary London Lucilla male Margaret Maitland Margaret Oliphant marriage Marriage of Elinor marry Mary Melvilles Merkland Minister's Wife Miss Marjoribanks mother motifs naive narrative narrator never Nonconformist oeuvre Oliphant's fiction Oliphant's novels Patty Perpetual Curate Phoebe plot poor Portrait presentation protagonist Q. D. Leavis Railwayman reader Rector religious role romantic romantic love Rose in June Salem Chapel Saturday Review Scottish sentimental Showalter social Spectator Stock Clarke sympathy Three Brothers traditional Tredgold Trollope typical Victorian fiction Victorian novel Williams woman women writers young