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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... narrator's childhood hang in the void - unless the author means herself when the narrator is reminiscing . In many Victorian novels the differentiation between narrator and author is blurred , the author's opinions can be discerned ...
... narrator's childhood hang in the void - unless the author means herself when the narrator is reminiscing . In many Victorian novels the differentiation between narrator and author is blurred , the author's opinions can be discerned ...
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... narrator and the enlightened reader . In general it is true to say that Oliphant never employs first- person narrators as figures of identification , but sees them from an ironical angle , even when she makes them articulate her own ...
... narrator and the enlightened reader . In general it is true to say that Oliphant never employs first- person narrators as figures of identification , but sees them from an ironical angle , even when she makes them articulate her own ...
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... narrator of the ghost story " The Portrait " , who is haunted by visions and hallucinations , is equally unconvincing . In contrast , in A Beleaguered City Oliphant succeeds in making the three male narrator figures plausible . The ...
... narrator of the ghost story " The Portrait " , who is haunted by visions and hallucinations , is equally unconvincing . In contrast , in A Beleaguered City Oliphant succeeds in making the three male narrator figures plausible . The ...
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Introduction | 1 |
FORMAL CONSIDERATIONS | 17 |
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