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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... voice , enabling us to make certain deductions about the problematic relationship between narrator and author in Oliphant's fiction . As in the majority of Victorian novels , the authorial narrator largely remains a mere voice in ...
... voice , enabling us to make certain deductions about the problematic relationship between narrator and author in Oliphant's fiction . As in the majority of Victorian novels , the authorial narrator largely remains a mere voice in ...
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... voice is not given any specific traits of character or any specific background that would make her a concrete fictional persona.7 Without such a personalisation of the narrative voice , references to the narrator's childhood hang in the ...
... voice is not given any specific traits of character or any specific background that would make her a concrete fictional persona.7 Without such a personalisation of the narrative voice , references to the narrator's childhood hang in the ...
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... voice and the author it is natural that the voice of the authorial narrator should frequently serve Oliphant as a mouthpiece for her opinions and judgements . The narrative voice adopts attitudes shared by Oliphant , something which is ...
... voice and the author it is natural that the voice of the authorial narrator should frequently serve Oliphant as a mouthpiece for her opinions and judgements . The narrative voice adopts attitudes shared by Oliphant , something which is ...
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Introduction | 1 |
FORMAL CONSIDERATIONS | 17 |
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