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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... mother after his marriage , The Wizard's Son , like so many of Oliphant's novels , would suggest the author's identification with possessive maternal love . Poor mother ! She had loved , and cherished , and cared for him all the days of ...
... mother after his marriage , The Wizard's Son , like so many of Oliphant's novels , would suggest the author's identification with possessive maternal love . Poor mother ! She had loved , and cherished , and cared for him all the days of ...
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... mother's illegitimate claims even more clearly in the short story " Grove Road , Hampstead " than in The Wizard's Son and A House Divided Against Itself . The story satirises Mrs. Underwood's ludicrous concern for her grown son and her ...
... mother's illegitimate claims even more clearly in the short story " Grove Road , Hampstead " than in The Wizard's Son and A House Divided Against Itself . The story satirises Mrs. Underwood's ludicrous concern for her grown son and her ...
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... mother - a mother she views as a rival and so gladly misses - Mary feels herself responsible , as it were , for father's weal and woe : “ and I was left alone - a small baby , with papa on my hands to look after " ( " The Two Marys ...
... mother - a mother she views as a rival and so gladly misses - Mary feels herself responsible , as it were , for father's weal and woe : “ and I was left alone - a small baby , with papa on my hands to look after " ( " The Two Marys ...
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Introduction | 1 |
FORMAL CONSIDERATIONS | 17 |
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