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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... upper class , although Nancy's philistinism is overdrawn to ensure the desired reaction on the part of a readership less familiar with social finesse . Nancy accuses the actors of the Comédie Francaise of speaking bad French , is bored ...
... upper class , although Nancy's philistinism is overdrawn to ensure the desired reaction on the part of a readership less familiar with social finesse . Nancy accuses the actors of the Comédie Francaise of speaking bad French , is bored ...
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... upper classes against her intentions can be seen in the understanding she shows for Lady Denzil in Neighbours on the Green , who deserted her son from her first marriage so as to be able to marry an aristo- crat . Even the embittered ...
... upper classes against her intentions can be seen in the understanding she shows for Lady Denzil in Neighbours on the Green , who deserted her son from her first marriage so as to be able to marry an aristo- crat . Even the embittered ...
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... upper hand . ” ( A Rose in June , 7,108 ) In a manner typical of Oliphant , the sentimental clichés of Vic- torian fiction , with its magnanimous patients and grand death scenes , are challenged . Even more unconventional than this ...
... upper hand . ” ( A Rose in June , 7,108 ) In a manner typical of Oliphant , the sentimental clichés of Vic- torian fiction , with its magnanimous patients and grand death scenes , are challenged . Even more unconventional than this ...
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Introduction | 1 |
FORMAL CONSIDERATIONS | 17 |
17 | 51 |
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Términos y frases comunes
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