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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... original treatment of motifs , let only a few examples be cited here . the sudden impact one associates with a Hitchcock film . " The suicide in Carita , he maintains , is " lurid perhaps , but not entirely without significance from a ...
... original treatment of motifs , let only a few examples be cited here . the sudden impact one associates with a Hitchcock film . " The suicide in Carita , he maintains , is " lurid perhaps , but not entirely without significance from a ...
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... original writer . She offers unexpected answers to a number of questions traditionally asked by the domestic novel and possesses the courage to swim against the current of the age by es- chewing idealisation and complaisance . Her ...
... original writer . She offers unexpected answers to a number of questions traditionally asked by the domestic novel and possesses the courage to swim against the current of the age by es- chewing idealisation and complaisance . Her ...
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... original solutions and the reversal of clichés , it must be conceded that not all the works that strike us with the boldness of their subject matter rank among her best . The Son of his Father is a case in point . The way the con- vict ...
... original solutions and the reversal of clichés , it must be conceded that not all the works that strike us with the boldness of their subject matter rank among her best . The Son of his Father is a case in point . The way the con- vict ...
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Introduction | 1 |
FORMAL CONSIDERATIONS | 17 |
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