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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... sense of reality . They stub- bornly cling to high - flying ideas and extremist convictions , even when such obstinacy acts to their own detriment and they themselves realise where their dogmatism will lead them . Like the female ...
... sense of reality . They stub- bornly cling to high - flying ideas and extremist convictions , even when such obstinacy acts to their own detriment and they themselves realise where their dogmatism will lead them . Like the female ...
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... sense of frustration and disillu- sionment is felt by the women , who feel abandoned to their prob- lems and , like Mrs. Morgan in the citation below , cannot make their sentiments known to their insensitive husbands . Her compunctions ...
... sense of frustration and disillu- sionment is felt by the women , who feel abandoned to their prob- lems and , like Mrs. Morgan in the citation below , cannot make their sentiments known to their insensitive husbands . Her compunctions ...
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... sense of incongruity , however overwhelming may be the sorrow , when they are removed from us . But Gervase ! How hard it was to think of him gaping , incapable of understanding , on the verge of that new world . Who could associate ...
... sense of incongruity , however overwhelming may be the sorrow , when they are removed from us . But Gervase ! How hard it was to think of him gaping , incapable of understanding , on the verge of that new world . Who could associate ...
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Introduction | 1 |
FORMAL CONSIDERATIONS | 17 |
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