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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... ironic effects created by a juxtaposition of different viewpoints and by the tension between the figural point of view and the panoramic vision of the authorial narrator . Generally speaking , such detached irony is typical of ...
... ironic effects created by a juxtaposition of different viewpoints and by the tension between the figural point of view and the panoramic vision of the authorial narrator . Generally speaking , such detached irony is typical of ...
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... ironic tone is unmistakable and the intended judgement clear . The apparent endorsement of Lucilla Marjori- banks ... irony of her egotism . The incipient sentiment Dr. Marjoribanks had exhibited was one that struck at the roots of her ...
... ironic tone is unmistakable and the intended judgement clear . The apparent endorsement of Lucilla Marjori- banks ... irony of her egotism . The incipient sentiment Dr. Marjoribanks had exhibited was one that struck at the roots of her ...
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... irony and benevolence , on the one hand unmasking his arrogance , but , at the same time , evoking the reader's ... ironic angle and have all their whims and foibles exposed . Even Frank Wentworth , a gentleman and a clergyman with ...
... irony and benevolence , on the one hand unmasking his arrogance , but , at the same time , evoking the reader's ... ironic angle and have all their whims and foibles exposed . Even Frank Wentworth , a gentleman and a clergyman with ...
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Introduction | 1 |
FORMAL CONSIDERATIONS | 17 |
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