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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... narrative voice - with a jibe at male fanaticism for sport - claims an inability to do justice to the splendour of golf in St. Andrew's . How shall a feeble feminine hand attempt to depict its delights and triumphs ? ( May , II , 5,61 ) ...
... narrative voice - with a jibe at male fanaticism for sport - claims an inability to do justice to the splendour of golf in St. Andrew's . How shall a feeble feminine hand attempt to depict its delights and triumphs ? ( May , II , 5,61 ) ...
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... narrative perspective located directly in the experiencing self ( in actu ) and circumventing the filter of the " wiser " Hester . The Days of My Life is impressive as the character study of a passionate woman , albeit some problems of ...
... narrative perspective located directly in the experiencing self ( in actu ) and circumventing the filter of the " wiser " Hester . The Days of My Life is impressive as the character study of a passionate woman , albeit some problems of ...
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... narrative point of view is not quite plausible . Oliphant mastered the problems of narrative motivation and of effectively contrasting contradicting narrative voices in one of her best works , A Beleaguered City . In terms of narrative ...
... narrative point of view is not quite plausible . Oliphant mastered the problems of narrative motivation and of effectively contrasting contradicting narrative voices in one of her best works , A Beleaguered City . In terms of narrative ...
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Introduction | 1 |
FORMAL CONSIDERATIONS | 17 |
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