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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... published two to three novels a year and often began a new story the same day she had finished the previous one.4 ... publish no new novel . In Autobiography and Letters , 23 , Oliphant says she began Caleb Field the same night she fin ...
... published two to three novels a year and often began a new story the same day she had finished the previous one.4 ... publish no new novel . In Autobiography and Letters , 23 , Oliphant says she began Caleb Field the same night she fin ...
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... published in Pall Mall Magazine , V , no.23 ( 1895 ) , 354-368 . " The Lily and the Thorn " and Young Musgrave deal with the same basic theme . Oliphant's excuse that the novel is a sequel to the short story is not satisfactory . Cf ...
... published in Pall Mall Magazine , V , no.23 ( 1895 ) , 354-368 . " The Lily and the Thorn " and Young Musgrave deal with the same basic theme . Oliphant's excuse that the novel is a sequel to the short story is not satisfactory . Cf ...
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... published so many mediocre stories as Oliphant did . But even most of these works are not " rubbish " ( Autobiography and Letters , 241 ) , to use Oliphant's own pejorative remark . Leavis even claims , " there is something worth ...
... published so many mediocre stories as Oliphant did . But even most of these works are not " rubbish " ( Autobiography and Letters , 241 ) , to use Oliphant's own pejorative remark . Leavis even claims , " there is something worth ...
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Introduction | 1 |
FORMAL CONSIDERATIONS | 17 |
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