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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... thing incredible . ( Sons and Daughters , 1,7 ) Pompous protestations are often rendered absurd and exposed as ... things that never will be asked from you . The question is , will you let Geoff be happy , poor boy , in his own way ...
... thing incredible . ( Sons and Daughters , 1,7 ) Pompous protestations are often rendered absurd and exposed as ... things that never will be asked from you . The question is , will you let Geoff be happy , poor boy , in his own way ...
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... thing for a young lady to be married , it must be a finer thing still that she should have , as people say , two strings to her bow . If Katherine marries the doctor , James Stanford ... no doubt in India will marry yet another wife and ...
... thing for a young lady to be married , it must be a finer thing still that she should have , as people say , two strings to her bow . If Katherine marries the doctor , James Stanford ... no doubt in India will marry yet another wife and ...
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... thing to make a fortune by . But I am of opinion that it is the first thing in the world . ( The Railwayman and his Children , 48,396f . ) ... This modern Portia's reasoning leaves the materialistic Row- land , who scorns ill paid work ...
... thing to make a fortune by . But I am of opinion that it is the first thing in the world . ( The Railwayman and his Children , 48,396f . ) ... This modern Portia's reasoning leaves the materialistic Row- land , who scorns ill paid work ...
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Introduction | 1 |
FORMAL CONSIDERATIONS | 17 |
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