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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... Situation Like the majority of her contemporaries , Oliphant usually favours the authorial narrative situation . An omniscient narrator presents and comments on the story , explains the characters ' thoughts and assesses their behaviour ...
... Situation Like the majority of her contemporaries , Oliphant usually favours the authorial narrative situation . An omniscient narrator presents and comments on the story , explains the characters ' thoughts and assesses their behaviour ...
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... situations and not with depicting a coherent se- quence of actions.1 Had she been as good at structuring action as at ... situation , and from the modes of publi- cation customary in the nineteenth century . 1 Blackwood's , 162 ( 1897 ) ...
... situations and not with depicting a coherent se- quence of actions.1 Had she been as good at structuring action as at ... situation , and from the modes of publi- cation customary in the nineteenth century . 1 Blackwood's , 162 ( 1897 ) ...
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... situation he hardly appreciates being commended by his tutor for his innocence and purity of heart , whereas he would have preferred to have been considered experienced and cosmopolitan . Jock's diffident love , his frustration at not ...
... situation he hardly appreciates being commended by his tutor for his innocence and purity of heart , whereas he would have preferred to have been considered experienced and cosmopolitan . Jock's diffident love , his frustration at not ...
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Introduction | 1 |
FORMAL CONSIDERATIONS | 17 |
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