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 |
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