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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... perhaps ... vain writing down the tale of Janet's little troubles , while the narrator perhaps has a heart filled with things that hurt and wound a great deal more . ( Janet , II , 12,198 ) This is presumably a reference to the death of ...
... perhaps ... vain writing down the tale of Janet's little troubles , while the narrator perhaps has a heart filled with things that hurt and wound a great deal more . ( Janet , II , 12,198 ) This is presumably a reference to the death of ...
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... perhaps : but after all how slight a matter . To make the poor creature comfortable at the cost of what - a box or two of cigars , perhaps , or some other trifle . And if it should be her own fault , or her husband's - what then ? Had I ...
... perhaps : but after all how slight a matter . To make the poor creature comfortable at the cost of what - a box or two of cigars , perhaps , or some other trifle . And if it should be her own fault , or her husband's - what then ? Had I ...
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... perhaps more ready to see their disabilities in this way than men . A man will sometimes set forth in much detail , as if he knew , the fancies , eva- nescent and changeful as a dream , of a girl's dawning mind , putting them all into ...
... perhaps more ready to see their disabilities in this way than men . A man will sometimes set forth in much detail , as if he knew , the fancies , eva- nescent and changeful as a dream , of a girl's dawning mind , putting them all into ...
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Introduction | 1 |
FORMAL CONSIDERATIONS | 17 |
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