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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... less innocuously than many less religious - minded writers . Her tolerance for people with different beliefs is one of the traits of character that distinguish her favourably from the fanaticism of many propagandists . In her ...
... less innocuously than many less religious - minded writers . Her tolerance for people with different beliefs is one of the traits of character that distinguish her favourably from the fanaticism of many propagandists . In her ...
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... less happy . If she should marry Stanford , Dr. Burnet will feel it , but it will not break his heart . And then the two who make up their minds to this step will live happy - more or less - ever after . What more is there to be said ...
... less happy . If she should marry Stanford , Dr. Burnet will feel it , but it will not break his heart . And then the two who make up their minds to this step will live happy - more or less - ever after . What more is there to be said ...
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... less tendency to exaggerate and over - dramatise . Like her more famous colleagues , she also manages to convey what Cockshut misses in so many Victorian portrayals of marriage , i.e. , " a sense of causation , a regard for probability ...
... less tendency to exaggerate and over - dramatise . Like her more famous colleagues , she also manages to convey what Cockshut misses in so many Victorian portrayals of marriage , i.e. , " a sense of causation , a regard for probability ...
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Introduction | 1 |
FORMAL CONSIDERATIONS | 17 |
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