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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... wives from important issues out of pure male arrogance and a misconceived notion of honour . The painter Drummond , for instance , would not dare to burden his wife with his financial straits , although she is really much more practical ...
... wives from important issues out of pure male arrogance and a misconceived notion of honour . The painter Drummond , for instance , would not dare to burden his wife with his financial straits , although she is really much more practical ...
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... wife's " ignorance " , who has nei- ther the time nor the patience to share his aesthetic interests , but whom he ... wife to shield him from creditors and supplicants , at the same time ridiculing her trite worries . · That she was ...
... wife's " ignorance " , who has nei- ther the time nor the patience to share his aesthetic interests , but whom he ... wife to shield him from creditors and supplicants , at the same time ridiculing her trite worries . · That she was ...
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... wife , because he is not allowed to have any wife ; and you can't go back to your maiden name , be- cause of the children ; and how can you have any place in society ? How can I be called Mrs. Wentworth any more when my husband has left ...
... wife , because he is not allowed to have any wife ; and you can't go back to your maiden name , be- cause of the children ; and how can you have any place in society ? How can I be called Mrs. Wentworth any more when my husband has left ...
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Introduction | 1 |
FORMAL CONSIDERATIONS | 17 |
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