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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... literary talent is quite in keeping with a topos among women writers , who , as Showalter proves , thus endeavoured " to integrate and harmonise the responsibilities of their personal and professional lives . " 28 From the publication ...
... literary talent is quite in keeping with a topos among women writers , who , as Showalter proves , thus endeavoured " to integrate and harmonise the responsibilities of their personal and professional lives . " 28 From the publication ...
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... literary accomplishments , but her sense of duty , her diligence and her femininity , were not liable to make her appealing to the following generations . It became more and more customary to argue that Oliphant was a " minor novelist ...
... literary accomplishments , but her sense of duty , her diligence and her femininity , were not liable to make her appealing to the following generations . It became more and more customary to argue that Oliphant was a " minor novelist ...
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... literary conventions , her catering to the taste of the audience , an audience she ridicules in the same novel , and her tongue - in - cheek compliance with reader expectations that are at the same time exposed as ludicrous clichés ...
... literary conventions , her catering to the taste of the audience , an audience she ridicules in the same novel , and her tongue - in - cheek compliance with reader expectations that are at the same time exposed as ludicrous clichés ...
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Introduction | 1 |
FORMAL CONSIDERATIONS | 17 |
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