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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... social rise merely masks the envy of those who had themselves envisaged the idiot as a potential husband.12 Several ... social acceptance.14 Like Phoebe , Patty is also " rewarded " with wealth and good fortune , and in return she es ...
... social rise merely masks the envy of those who had themselves envisaged the idiot as a potential husband.12 Several ... social acceptance.14 Like Phoebe , Patty is also " rewarded " with wealth and good fortune , and in return she es ...
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... social rebellion . Like several other Victorian writers , she shows an unmistakable tendency to present the social hierarchy as a divine order . 15 Chartists , reformers and socialist agitators are always presented as negative ...
... social rebellion . Like several other Victorian writers , she shows an unmistakable tendency to present the social hierarchy as a divine order . 15 Chartists , reformers and socialist agitators are always presented as negative ...
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... social system they find unacceptable , most of Oliphant's protagonists seem , superficially , to obey the social rules . None of them finds it difficult to meet social expectations . They command the required feminine accomplishments ...
... social system they find unacceptable , most of Oliphant's protagonists seem , superficially , to obey the social rules . None of them finds it difficult to meet social expectations . They command the required feminine accomplishments ...
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Introduction | 1 |
FORMAL CONSIDERATIONS | 17 |
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