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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... sentimental stereotype . The inhibited Rev. Proctor disappoints his bride to be , who expects a passionate declaration of love , by alluding to her advanced age and uttering only a half - hearted proposal . " It's a small parish , but ...
... sentimental stereotype . The inhibited Rev. Proctor disappoints his bride to be , who expects a passionate declaration of love , by alluding to her advanced age and uttering only a half - hearted proposal . " It's a small parish , but ...
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A Subversive View of Traditional Themes Margarete Rubik. Just as Oliphant subverts the sentimental cliché of romances ... sentimentality and exposed as a romantic fraud . In Oliphant's novel , too , the dying man's last words express ...
A Subversive View of Traditional Themes Margarete Rubik. Just as Oliphant subverts the sentimental cliché of romances ... sentimentality and exposed as a romantic fraud . In Oliphant's novel , too , the dying man's last words express ...
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... sentimental scenes and the exag- gerated importance placed on dying by some Evangelicals , who in their treatises ... sentimentality , exercising surprising restraint in her presentation . This discretion in the face of death is ...
... sentimental scenes and the exag- gerated importance placed on dying by some Evangelicals , who in their treatises ... sentimentality , exercising surprising restraint in her presentation . This discretion in the face of death is ...
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Introduction | 1 |
FORMAL CONSIDERATIONS | 17 |
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