Margaret Oliphant in Her Later Years
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Köp båda 2 för 1850 krThe Author: Judith van Oosterom was born and grew up in Surrey, England. She studied English literature and language at the University of Nijmegen in the Netherlands and was awarded a Ph.D. degree in English literature for her work on Margaret Oliphant by the University of Leiden, the Netherlands, in 2004. At present she is engaged in a further study of Margaret Oliphant's journalism and literary criticism.
Contents: Introduction to the work and an outline of its contents - A brief biography of Oliphant's life from 1828 to 1897 - Her (over)productivity related to fiction in the 1880s and 1890s - A synopsis of Oliphant's later and, in particular, less well known novels - A selection of short stories and their importance as a genre - Margaret Oliphant's connection with the Blackwood family and their company - The female journalist and her place in the (male) world of the periodical - Life as a female contributor: a reviewer and critic in the late nineteenth century - An overview of her articles and journalism from later years - Autobiography, biography and Margaret Oliphant's handling of it - Some thoughts on works of non-fiction from the 1880s and 1890s - The revelatory nature of Oliphant's autobiography and some of her letters - Summary and conclusions regarding her position in the literary canon.