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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... issues , but on others they display such obstinacy , lack of discernment and prejudice that they provide the novel with ample material for satire . 21 Cf. the chapter on " Death " . Oliphant's desire to keep a clear distance between ...
... issues , but on others they display such obstinacy , lack of discernment and prejudice that they provide the novel with ample material for satire . 21 Cf. the chapter on " Death " . Oliphant's desire to keep a clear distance between ...
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... issues of faith . Even the agnostic George Eliot , Williams claims in her biography of Oliphant , " was nothing like ... issue of unmerited misfortune a central theme . This novel , which so obviously does not " justify the ways of God ...
... issues of faith . Even the agnostic George Eliot , Williams claims in her biography of Oliphant , " was nothing like ... issue of unmerited misfortune a central theme . This novel , which so obviously does not " justify the ways of God ...
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... issues and usually dismisses religious inconsistency with a smile should show no understanding whatever for the religious doubts afflicting so many people in the nineteenth century . We look in vain for references to the revolutionary ...
... issues and usually dismisses religious inconsistency with a smile should show no understanding whatever for the religious doubts afflicting so many people in the nineteenth century . We look in vain for references to the revolutionary ...
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Introduction | 1 |
FORMAL CONSIDERATIONS | 17 |
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