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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... writer of the age after Mrs. Gaskell's death . Even her less successful books were better than the works of 99 % of other writers , remarked a critic in The Spectator . " All the same , such general praise did not do justice to her true ...
... writer of the age after Mrs. Gaskell's death . Even her less successful books were better than the works of 99 % of other writers , remarked a critic in The Spectator . " All the same , such general praise did not do justice to her true ...
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... writers , who , as Showalter proves , thus endeavoured " to integrate and harmonise the responsibilities of their ... writers than Oliphant , 26 Virginia Woolf , Three Guineas , 166 . 27 Peterson , 169 . 28 Cf. Showalter , 61 and 66 ...
... writers , who , as Showalter proves , thus endeavoured " to integrate and harmonise the responsibilities of their ... writers than Oliphant , 26 Virginia Woolf , Three Guineas , 166 . 27 Peterson , 169 . 28 Cf. Showalter , 61 and 66 ...
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... writers themselves.1 But even minor writers , faced with a death rate of over 20 percent and an alarmingly high infant mortality , 2 could easily study such scenes " from the living - or dying - model , ” as Ruskin contemptuously re ...
... writers themselves.1 But even minor writers , faced with a death rate of over 20 percent and an alarmingly high infant mortality , 2 could easily study such scenes " from the living - or dying - model , ” as Ruskin contemptuously re ...
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Introduction | 1 |
FORMAL CONSIDERATIONS | 17 |
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