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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... problems in which the narrator is not involved , whereas less attention is devoted to the village eccentrics who significantly contributed to enlivening the Scottish background in Margaret Maitland . In Lucy Crofton , the choice of ...
... problems in which the narrator is not involved , whereas less attention is devoted to the village eccentrics who significantly contributed to enlivening the Scottish background in Margaret Maitland . In Lucy Crofton , the choice of ...
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... problems after an interval of some years . Here it becomes obvious that the first part , too , was in fact narrated in hindsight by the now adult Mary , and not by the child Mary . As stated already , the narrative point of view is not ...
... problems after an interval of some years . Here it becomes obvious that the first part , too , was in fact narrated in hindsight by the now adult Mary , and not by the child Mary . As stated already , the narrative point of view is not ...
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... problems and conflicts she takes up in her novels . It would not be unreasonable to assume that she knew some of these crises from personal experience . Above and beyond this , her unromantic insight that there is no such thing as ...
... problems and conflicts she takes up in her novels . It would not be unreasonable to assume that she knew some of these crises from personal experience . Above and beyond this , her unromantic insight that there is no such thing as ...
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Introduction | 1 |
FORMAL CONSIDERATIONS | 17 |
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