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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Margaret Oliphant."”.
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"The object of their life": defining female self in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and Miss Marjoribanks
… Anne Brontë in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and Margaret Oliphant in Miss Marjoribanks. For the most part, these choices have been perceived negatively by critics because the resulting text does not produce evidence of either twentieth-century aesthetics or themes. However, as recent …
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Girls of the Period Women Critics and Constructions of the Feminine in the Mid-Victorian Novel.
… interest in the reactions of reviewers such as Margaret Oliphant and Geraldine Jewsbury to images of the feminine in sensation novels, but no study exists that brings together a body of women's criticism of this period, or examines the critical responses of women to a much wider spectrum of …
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Contextualizing Value: Market Stories in Mid-Victorian Periodicals
… Dickens, Anthony Trollope, Elizabeth Gaskell and Margaret Oliphant, were writing and printing them. Navigating discourses about literature and writing to delineate and ascertain the implications of the contextual position of certain short stories, this study characterizes a previously unexamined …
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The specter of the American Civil War in British writing of the mid-nineteenth century.
In this project, I argue that in the years leading up to the American Civil War, America became Britain's gothic double, making manifest some of Britain's most keenly felt anxieties. The increasing tensions in America, which finally erupted in civil war in 1861, unsettled the relationship between …
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The specter of the American Civil War in British writing of the mid-nineteenth century.
In this project, I argue that in the years leading up to the American Civil War, America became Britain's gothic double, making manifest some of Britain's most keenly felt anxieties. The increasing tensions in America, which finally erupted in civil war in 1861, unsettled the relationship between …
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The Serial Imagination: Novel Form, Serial Format, and Victorian Reading Publics
… Braddon, Anthony Trollope, Elizabeth Gaskell, Margaret Oliphant, and George Eliot, it follows that, at the very least, we should entertain the possibility that the serial form was indeed one and the same as that of the Victorian novel itself. Each of these novelists had a hand in developing the …