...Leslie Bruce In their debates preceding the 1857 Divorce Act, legislators unwittingly aligned abused wives and priests in ways that brought into focus both groups' economic dependence upon their superiors. I contend that Margaret Oliphant's Salem Chapel (1863) employs the very alignment Parliament...

..., they achieve fulfillment not in individualist plots but in group activities and brimful houses. The most influential Victorian family chronicler was Charlotte Mary Yonge. Yonge's episodic form was taken up by Anthony Trollope, Margaret Oliphant, Louisa May Alcott, and Margaret Sidney. These writers’ chronicles...

... succeeding generations for more explicitly political engagement. 4 Sustained devotion to politics was not confined to upper-class women, either. Women of all classes might be political activists. 5 Margaret Oliphant , born on the margins of the middle class, canvassed with a mixed group of women...

... of oneself as existing at once within and without a tiny beehive of a world” (102–3). Taking Plotz's account of provincial fiction, in which he turns from George Eliot and Thomas Hardy to the prolific but still under-studied Margaret Oliphant—alongside his account of short fiction's relationship...

... as a world economic power, to the beginning of the twentieth, when this authority was ebbing. Beginning with Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice (1813), she ends with Henry James’s The Golden Bowl (1904), examining works by Frances Trol- lope, Anthony Trollope, and Margaret Oliphant along the way. Michie...

..., exceedingly prosaic genre: life writing. Margaret Oliphant's autobiography is particularly unremarkable in this respect, recounting the steady accretion of years, suffusing each entry with duration by simultaneously flooding her prose with feeling and emptying it of content. An entry from 1864: “I have...

... and Other Writings . Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1989 . Miller , D.A. The Novel and the Police . Berkeley: U of California P, 1988 . “New Novels.” The Spectator . Sept. 8 , 1860 : 864 . [ Oliphant , Margaret .] “The Laws Concerning Women.” Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine . 79...

... K. The Mastery of Submission: Inventions of Masochism . Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1997 . Oliphant , Margaret . “Novels.” Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 94 August 1863 . Roberts , Nancy . Schools of Sympathy: Gender and Identification through the Novel . Montreal: McGill...

... to produce. There are novels of the warming pan, and others of the galvanic battery type—some which gently stimulate a par- ticular feeling, and others which carry the whole nervous system by steam” (487). Similarly, Margaret Oliphant’s review of Collins’s The Woman in White famously singles out...

... than any wells of empathy or recognition. In four chapters, Ward tests out four versions of this aesthetic effect. The first chapter explores the model of “the feedback loop” in the novels of Charlotte Yonge, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Margaret Oliphant (12). Chapter 2 considers “the information system...

...: The Sign Painter in Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles.” Thomas Hardy Journal 15 . 2 ( 1999 ): 60 – 71 . O'Toole Tess . Genealogy and Fiction in Hardy: Family Lineage and Narrative Lines . Basingstoke : Macmillan , 1997 . [ Oliphant Margaret .] “The Old Saloon.” Blackwood's...

... of Margaret Oliphant and concluding with some echoing modernists and postmodernists. Then a chapter on indirect discourse in Eliot (including Theophrastus Such ) and Henry James, buoyed by some spectacular close reading worthy of Garrett Stewart at his best, though not indulging in Stewart's nutty humor...

..., the feeling of moral intuition is an effect of form. Dickens, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Margaret Oliphant figured out how to use narrative strategies such as suspense and humor to generate moral outcomes that feel so natural and proper that the story seems to carry us to certain conclusions without...

... from around 1850 that feature stereotypical inventors, in- cluding Geraldine Jewsbury's Marian Withers, Margaret Oliphant's John Drayton, Dinah Mulock's John Halifax, Gentleman, and Gaskell's own Mary Barton, but she neither dis- cusses these works nor explains her decision not to discuss them...

... , Franco . Atlas of the European Novel 1800–1900 . London: Verso, 1998 . Oliphant , Margaret . “Miss Austen and Miss Mitford.” Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine March 1870 : 294 –305. Rpt. in Southam, ed. 215–25. Pfau , Thomas . Wordsworth’s Profession: Form, Class, and the Logic...

...Anna Gibson Benjamin Morgan , The Outward Mind: Materialist Aesthetics in Victorian Science and Literature ( Chicago : U of Chicago P , 2017 ), pp. 368 , cloth, $105.00 ; paper, $35.00 . Copyright © 2020 by Novel, Inc. 2020 When Victorian critics like Margaret Oliphant...

..., Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, Charlotte Brontë, Eliot, Gustave Flaubert, Margaret Oliphant, and Hardy. The affiliation could commend or condemn, depending on whether the critic saw the precise rendering of humble subjects as advancing or degrading art. For Walter Scott, Austen’s novels...

... , The Golden Lion of Granpère , An Eye for an Eye , and Harry Heathcote of Gangoil. 3 See Trollope, Autobiography 108–11. 4 Critics were angry at Trollope for denying Lily romantic closure, especially Margaret Oliphant , who wrote: [A]s to Lily Dale. Mr. Trollope's readers have been...

... because of its own liminal status as a carrier of both sentimental and fiscal value. He reads The Mill on the Floss, Cranford, and Margaret Oliphant’s Kirsteen (1890) briefly in the introduction to illustrate the Victorian concern with the “double life of property” (12). He reflects productively...

... see Hardy's scrupulous reckoning with problems of plotting and world building that are already more subtly at work in realist novelists before him—among them Dickens, George Eliot, and Margaret Oliphant. 2 Given Piketty 's emphasis on the 1970s as a turning point in recrudescence...