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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... turns his daughter Frances into a docile paragon of virtue , above all because he finds her uncritical , child - like devotion convenient . The scornful impu- dence with which his other daughter Constance , brought up by her mother ...
... turns his daughter Frances into a docile paragon of virtue , above all because he finds her uncritical , child - like devotion convenient . The scornful impu- dence with which his other daughter Constance , brought up by her mother ...
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... turns out to be scheming , materialistic and unscrupulous . She breaks open her father's will and attempts to ... turn , is supposed to 137.
... turns out to be scheming , materialistic and unscrupulous . She breaks open her father's will and attempts to ... turn , is supposed to 137.
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... turns out to be the very image of the young man's mother , so that the visitation that was disturbing at first turns out to be positive . " The Library Window " , one of Oliphant's best and most equivocal short stories , one not ...
... turns out to be the very image of the young man's mother , so that the visitation that was disturbing at first turns out to be positive . " The Library Window " , one of Oliphant's best and most equivocal short stories , one not ...
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Introduction | 1 |
FORMAL CONSIDERATIONS | 17 |
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