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 , but denied the distinction of being an artist.29 Assessments claiming that there were better writers than Oliphant , 26 Virginia Woolf , Three Guineas , 166 . 27 Peterson , 169 . 28 Cf. Showalter , 61 and 66. Many women writers ...
... woman , but denied the distinction of being an artist.29 Assessments claiming that there were better writers than Oliphant , 26 Virginia Woolf , Three Guineas , 166 . 27 Peterson , 169 . 28 Cf. Showalter , 61 and 66. Many women writers ...
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... women writers cannot characterise men adequately when she acknowledges that women are better able to understand the emotions and thoughts of female characters than those of the other sex . The men of a woman's writing are always shadowy ...
... women writers cannot characterise men adequately when she acknowledges that women are better able to understand the emotions and thoughts of female characters than those of the other sex . The men of a woman's writing are always shadowy ...
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... Women's Fiction Foster demonstrates how women writers of the time often presented marriage as the source of frustration for women . In an early pamphlet , " The Laws Concerning Women " , Blackwood's , 79 ( 1856 ) , 379 , Oliphant ...
... Women's Fiction Foster demonstrates how women writers of the time often presented marriage as the source of frustration for women . In an early pamphlet , " The Laws Concerning Women " , Blackwood's , 79 ( 1856 ) , 379 , Oliphant ...
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Introduction | 1 |
FORMAL CONSIDERATIONS | 17 |
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