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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... thought passed through his mind . ( The Story of Valentine and his Brother , II , 16,236 ) Nevertheless , it would be unfair to castigate Oliphant as an indifferent , indeed even a poor stylist , and to speak , like James , of ...
... thought passed through his mind . ( The Story of Valentine and his Brother , II , 16,236 ) Nevertheless , it would be unfair to castigate Oliphant as an indifferent , indeed even a poor stylist , and to speak , like James , of ...
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... thought of that pos- sibility ... sent the blood back to Lady Markham's heart . It was not that she was unforgiving , or even that she had not a certain remainder of love for her husband . But to resume those habits of close ...
... thought of that pos- sibility ... sent the blood back to Lady Markham's heart . It was not that she was unforgiving , or even that she had not a certain remainder of love for her husband . But to resume those habits of close ...
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... thoughts which interfere with the grief of even a loving family : exhaustion and relief that everything is over , as in the case of Mrs. Damerel in A Rose in June , disappointment at the loss of the estate , as in the case of Alicia in ...
... thoughts which interfere with the grief of even a loving family : exhaustion and relief that everything is over , as in the case of Mrs. Damerel in A Rose in June , disappointment at the loss of the estate , as in the case of Alicia in ...
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Introduction | 1 |
FORMAL CONSIDERATIONS | 17 |
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