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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... seems awkward and implau- sible . In these three latter novels the characterisation of the narrator figures is unconvincing , whereas in Margaret Maitland , Orphans and Neighbours on the Green the elderly female narrators are por ...
... seems awkward and implau- sible . In these three latter novels the characterisation of the narrator figures is unconvincing , whereas in Margaret Maitland , Orphans and Neighbours on the Green the elderly female narrators are por ...
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... seems to be less effectively employed than in The Three Brothers . The former story , however , is highly praised by ... seems inappropriate to the context of her love for the nineteen - year - old Geoff . than such thematic parallels ...
... seems to be less effectively employed than in The Three Brothers . The former story , however , is highly praised by ... seems inappropriate to the context of her love for the nineteen - year - old Geoff . than such thematic parallels ...
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... seems decidedly suspect . In Lady William , for instance , the reader will hardly regard the dipsomaniac son of the clergyman as a suitable match for the protagonist's daughter , and in Who Was Lost and Is Found we may well ask how the ...
... seems decidedly suspect . In Lady William , for instance , the reader will hardly regard the dipsomaniac son of the clergyman as a suitable match for the protagonist's daughter , and in Who Was Lost and Is Found we may well ask how the ...
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Introduction | 1 |
FORMAL CONSIDERATIONS | 17 |
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