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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... women presented in a few very early novels and articles , in which she felt obliged to voice her publisher's reactionary beliefs and , like so many women writers of the century , to consolidate her own social position by paying lip ...
... women presented in a few very early novels and articles , in which she felt obliged to voice her publisher's reactionary beliefs and , like so many women writers of the century , to consolidate her own social position by paying lip ...
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... women's anger at being excluded from the right to vote was legitimate and in 1880 she finally demanded the right of women to participate in political life as natural birthright . In " The Grievances of Women ' she admitted with unusual ...
... women's anger at being excluded from the right to vote was legitimate and in 1880 she finally demanded the right of women to participate in political life as natural birthright . In " The Grievances of Women ' she admitted with unusual ...
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... Women , she confi- dently asserts , are well able , if needs be , to assume “ male ” tasks , but as a rule they are ... Women " , however , she owns that the slogan of the two separate spheres only serves men as evidence of women's ...
... Women , she confi- dently asserts , are well able , if needs be , to assume “ male ” tasks , but as a rule they are ... Women " , however , she owns that the slogan of the two separate spheres only serves men as evidence of women's ...
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Introduction | 1 |
FORMAL CONSIDERATIONS | 17 |
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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