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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... male colleagues are spared . Mrs. Severn , alias Padrona , is a figure with whom Oliphant identifies in many ways and who thus presents a key to understand- ing the way Oliphant saw herself as an artist . It is into her mouth that ...
... male colleagues are spared . Mrs. Severn , alias Padrona , is a figure with whom Oliphant identifies in many ways and who thus presents a key to understand- ing the way Oliphant saw herself as an artist . It is into her mouth that ...
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... male " characteristics , Oliphant even makes her women outdo their male counterparts in intelligence and energy and beat them in the very domains they traditionally consider their own . If intelligence alone was a doubtful virtue for ...
... male " characteristics , Oliphant even makes her women outdo their male counterparts in intelligence and energy and beat them in the very domains they traditionally consider their own . If intelligence alone was a doubtful virtue for ...
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... male figures . However , Oliphant probably means a more fundamental problem on the part of the author to intuit all the emotions of the other sex , and accuses her male colleagues of displaying no scruples whatever when characterising ...
... male figures . However , Oliphant probably means a more fundamental problem on the part of the author to intuit all the emotions of the other sex , and accuses her male colleagues of displaying no scruples whatever when characterising ...
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Introduction | 1 |
FORMAL CONSIDERATIONS | 17 |
17 | 51 |
Derechos de autor | |
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