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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... traditional fortune . The concept of poetic justice , crucial to many Victorian novels , is only employed by Oliphant in naive juvenilia , like Merkland and Adam Graeme , where she resorts to far - fetched coincidences to ensure a happy ...
... traditional fortune . The concept of poetic justice , crucial to many Victorian novels , is only employed by Oliphant in naive juvenilia , like Merkland and Adam Graeme , where she resorts to far - fetched coincidences to ensure a happy ...
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... traditional danger of the Scottish minister's education , but how it comes out of Homerton is less clear . " 25 Lady Western's invitation to the Nonconformist preacher is an element Eliot , Letters , IV , 25f . , already criticised as ...
... traditional danger of the Scottish minister's education , but how it comes out of Homerton is less clear . " 25 Lady Western's invitation to the Nonconformist preacher is an element Eliot , Letters , IV , 25f . , already criticised as ...
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... traditional , affectionate and solicitous gestures of farewell , with which so many Victorian heroes take leave of their relatives , are meaningless ritual . Basically he has no qualms about leaving his family destitute and uncared for ...
... traditional , affectionate and solicitous gestures of farewell , with which so many Victorian heroes take leave of their relatives , are meaningless ritual . Basically he has no qualms about leaving his family destitute and uncared for ...
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Introduction | 1 |
FORMAL CONSIDERATIONS | 17 |
17 | 51 |
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Autobiography and Letters Beleaguered City Blackwood's Carlingford characterisation characters Church clichés Colby contemporaries Country Gentleman critics Cuckoo Curate in Charge daughter depiction despite Diana Trelawny Dickens Dissenters Doctor's Family Eliot Equivocal Virtue father feel female figures George Eliot ghost stories girl hero heroine House Divided husband idealised ironic John Drayton Junior Kirsteen Ladies Lindores Lady Car Leavis Lilliesleaf literary London Lucilla male Margaret Maitland Margaret Oliphant marriage Marriage of Elinor marry Mary Melvilles Merkland Minister's Wife Miss Marjoribanks mother motifs naive narrative narrator never Nonconformist oeuvre Oliphant's fiction Oliphant's novels Patty Perpetual Curate Phoebe plot poor Portrait presentation protagonist Q. D. Leavis Railwayman reader Rector religious role romantic romantic love Rose in June Salem Chapel Saturday Review Scottish sentimental Showalter social Spectator Stock Clarke sympathy Three Brothers traditional Tredgold Trollope typical Victorian fiction Victorian novel Williams woman women writers young