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Mrs. Margaret Oliphant

English · Paperback / Softback

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This concise new book provides close readings of both canonical and less familiar novels and articles by the novelist Margaret Oliphant (1828-97). They show how she maintained a spirited dialogue with her age, confronting its ingrained prejudices, while reinforcing some of them herself.

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Valerie Sanders is Professor of English at the University of Hull. Her interest in Margaret Oliphant began with Eve's Renegades: Victorian Anti-Feminist Women Novelists (Macmillan,1996), and she has since contributed four edited volumes to the Pickering and Chatto Masters project, Selected Works of Margaret Oliphant, including a scholarly edition of Hester (1883). Other edited work includes two volumes of Records of Girlhood (Ashgate, 2000 and 2012), anthologies of nineteenth-century women's childhoods, and she has also published widely on Harriet Martineau, most recently a co-edited essay collection, with Gaby Weiner, Harriet Martineau and the Birth of Disciplines (Routledge, 2016). Her monographs include The Brother-Sister Culture in Nineteenth-Century Literature: From Austen to Woolf (Palgrave Macmillan, 2002), and The Tragi-Comedy of Victorian Fatherhood (CUP, 2009).

Product details

Authors Professor Valerie R. Sanders, Valerie Sanders
Publisher Edward Everett Root
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 31.05.2020
 
EAN 9781912224906
ISBN 978-1-912224-90-6
No. of pages 226
Dimensions 140 mm x 216 mm x 12 mm
Weight 291 g
Series Key Popular Women Writers
Key Popular Women Writers
Subjects Fiction > Poetry, drama
Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies

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