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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... marry , and live happy ever after , like a fairy tale . " ( The Perpetual Curate , 48,535f . ) In " The Doctor's Family " , with the same romantic irony , Oliphant makes her heroine deride the deus ex machina who turns up unexpectedly ...
... marry , and live happy ever after , like a fairy tale . " ( The Perpetual Curate , 48,535f . ) In " The Doctor's Family " , with the same romantic irony , Oliphant makes her heroine deride the deus ex machina who turns up unexpectedly ...
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... marry yet another wife and be more or 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 ...
... marry yet another wife and be more or 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 ...
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... marry ( especially the woman , by - the - bye ) has an unhappy life , and that a story which does not end in a wedding is no story at all , or at least ends badly , as people say . It happened to myself on one occasion to put together ...
... marry ( especially the woman , by - the - bye ) has an unhappy life , and that a story which does not end in a wedding is no story at all , or at least ends badly , as people say . It happened to myself on one occasion to put together ...
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Introduction | 1 |
FORMAL CONSIDERATIONS | 17 |
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