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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... praise did not do justice to her true talent . Although critical judgements tended to be positive , her reviewers failed to make a clear distinction between the major and the minor works . They found something to praise in every new ...
... praise did not do justice to her true talent . Although critical judgements tended to be positive , her reviewers failed to make a clear distinction between the major and the minor works . They found something to praise in every new ...
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... praised by V. and R. Colby , Equivocal Virtue , 136 , as being a " delightfully sentimental ... contemporary fairy tale . " The present author considers it rather to be a mawkish melodrama uncritically exploiting popular notions of the ...
... praised by V. and R. Colby , Equivocal Virtue , 136 , as being a " delightfully sentimental ... contemporary fairy tale . " The present author considers it rather to be a mawkish melodrama uncritically exploiting popular notions of the ...
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... praised ! If the poor souls were to try ours , the result might be different indeed.50 In " The Grievances of Women ... praise , not fair recognition . Even successful women ought never to let their husbands sense their su- periority ...
... praised ! If the poor souls were to try ours , the result might be different indeed.50 In " The Grievances of Women ... praise , not fair recognition . Even successful women ought never to let their husbands sense their su- periority ...
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Introduction | 1 |
FORMAL CONSIDERATIONS | 17 |
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