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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... religious writer , let alone the propagandist of a specific confession.1 Of her more than a hundred stories only very few can be called " religious " in the narrower sense of the term . In the ap- prentice novel A Son of the Soil , the ...
... religious writer , let alone the propagandist of a specific confession.1 Of her more than a hundred stories only very few can be called " religious " in the narrower sense of the term . In the ap- prentice novel A Son of the Soil , the ...
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... religious convictions of her figures are not at the centre of her interest . Instead , she focuses on their human flaws and eccentricities , which are often in amusing conflict with their professed religious principles . Contemporary ...
... religious convictions of her figures are not at the centre of her interest . Instead , she focuses on their human flaws and eccentricities , which are often in amusing conflict with their professed religious principles . Contemporary ...
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... religious inconsistency with a smile should show no understanding whatever for the religious doubts afflicting so many people in the nineteenth century . We look in vain for references to the revolutionary scientific discoveries of the ...
... religious inconsistency with a smile should show no understanding whatever for the religious doubts afflicting so many people in the nineteenth century . We look in vain for references to the revolutionary scientific discoveries of the ...
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Introduction | 1 |
FORMAL CONSIDERATIONS | 17 |
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