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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... regard either as the occasion of utter despair , and the most summary death by heart- break which was possible , or else as a release from all obligations towards the man who had disappointed her so sorely . She was no longer able to ...
... regard either as the occasion of utter despair , and the most summary death by heart- break which was possible , or else as a release from all obligations towards the man who had disappointed her so sorely . She was no longer able to ...
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... regards the hostility felt by a sensitive and educated man towards the vulgar and presumptuous shopkeepers seeking to control him as something quite natural . Fig- ures like the unctuous minister Tufton and the uncouth Mr. Beecher feel ...
... regards the hostility felt by a sensitive and educated man towards the vulgar and presumptuous shopkeepers seeking to control him as something quite natural . Fig- ures like the unctuous minister Tufton and the uncouth Mr. Beecher feel ...
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... regard as her masterpiece is , of course , partly a question of personal taste . Taste aside , how- ever , a number of ... regards the genre of ghost stories , which leave a wide scope to the imagination ; yet the complicated narrative ...
... regard as her masterpiece is , of course , partly a question of personal taste . Taste aside , how- ever , a number of ... regards the genre of ghost stories , which leave a wide scope to the imagination ; yet the complicated narrative ...
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Introduction | 1 |
FORMAL CONSIDERATIONS | 17 |
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