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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... woman's execution , very likely no great thing " ( 31,265 ) , or claims that Mab in The Curate in Charge may be a good book illustrator , but has never mastered the rules of perspective and landscape painting . In The Three Brothers ...
... woman's execution , very likely no great thing " ( 31,265 ) , or claims that Mab in The Curate in Charge may be a good book illustrator , but has never mastered the rules of perspective and landscape painting . In The Three Brothers ...
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... woman was the submissive angel in the house , holding sway over her own narrow confines , but these alone ; a weak ... Woman's ignorance and her restriction to the domain of the house was held aloft as a sign of vague moral superi- ority ...
... woman was the submissive angel in the house , holding sway over her own narrow confines , but these alone ; a weak ... Woman's ignorance and her restriction to the domain of the house was held aloft as a sign of vague moral superi- ority ...
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... woman . Happy endings auto- matically implied that the heroine had to marry and thus lose her independence . Novels written by women also usually conformed to this pattern ; the liberty of women is viewed sceptically , even re- jected ...
... woman . Happy endings auto- matically implied that the heroine had to marry and thus lose her independence . Novels written by women also usually conformed to this pattern ; the liberty of women is viewed sceptically , even re- jected ...
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Introduction | 1 |
FORMAL CONSIDERATIONS | 17 |
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