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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... refers the inquisitive reader to an expert's opinion on Jeanie's trousseau : " I shall deposit , however , an accurate inventory of the contents of the trunk with my kind friend , Miss Martha Buskbody , who has promised , should the ...
... refers the inquisitive reader to an expert's opinion on Jeanie's trousseau : " I shall deposit , however , an accurate inventory of the contents of the trunk with my kind friend , Miss Martha Buskbody , who has promised , should the ...
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... refers to changed social circumstances . These examples will show that Oliphant was by no means as careless in structure and plot as critics would sometimes suggest . Besides , the episodic sequence and the broad spectrum of sub - plots ...
... refers to changed social circumstances . These examples will show that Oliphant was by no means as careless in structure and plot as critics would sometimes suggest . Besides , the episodic sequence and the broad spectrum of sub - plots ...
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... refer to such typical subversiveness . Here let three examples suffice to illustrate the method . An illuminating ... refers to Trollope's Barchester series . Indeed , the whole idea of the Chronicles of Carlingford was inspired by ...
... refer to such typical subversiveness . Here let three examples suffice to illustrate the method . An illuminating ... refers to Trollope's Barchester series . Indeed , the whole idea of the Chronicles of Carlingford was inspired by ...
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Introduction | 1 |
FORMAL CONSIDERATIONS | 17 |
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