MARGARET OLIPHANT'S CRITICISM OF WOMEN'S SENSATION NOVELS
Kraliçe Viktorya döneminde çok iyi bilinen Margaret Oliphant roman, kısa öykü, deneme, eleştiri ve biyografi gibi farklı türlerinde birçok eser vermiş oldukça üretken bir yazardı. Margaret Oliphant külliyatından hiçbir eser günümüzde edebiyat kanonu içinde yer bulamamış olsa da, Anglo-Amerikan feminist hareketin geçmiş asırların unutulmuş kadın yazarlarının eserlerini canlandırma projesi Margaret Oliphant'ın eserlerine akademik bir ilginin canlanmasına vesile olmuştur. Margaret Oliphant ekonomik sebeplerden ötürü hayatını yazmaya adamıştır. Hem kurgusal hem de kurgusal olmayan muhtelif türlerde inanılmaz bir hızda eserler üretmiştir. Bu, aynı zamanda, Margaret Oliphant için zamanının sosyal, politik, edebi hareketleri ve tartışmalarına dair kendi düşüncelerini beyan edebildiği bir ortam yaratmıştır. Yazarın döneminin politik ve sosyal hareketlerine karşı tavrı günümüz Viktorya dönemi çalışmaları içinde oldukça tartışılan bir konudur. Dönemi kadın hareketi üzerine ve özellikle 1860'ların kadınlar tarafından yazılmış sansasyonel romanları hakkında yazdığı eleştirilerin Oliphant'ın gelenekçi yanına işaret ettiği düşünülür. Bu makale yazarın "Sansasyonel Romanlar" (1862) ve "Romanlar" (1867) başlıklı makalelerinin Viktorya dönemi edebi eleştirinin ahlakçı yönlerinin özellikle 1860'larda sansasyonel roman yazan kadın yazarlar üzerindeki baskısını vurgulayan bir analizini yapmayı amaçlar
MARGARET OLIPHANT'IN KADIN YAZARLARIN SANSASYONEL ROMANLARI HAKKINDAKİ ELEŞTİRİLERİ
As a prolific novelist, short-story writer, reviewer, biographer and critic, Margaret Oliphant was one of the significant literary figures of the Victorian age. Even though none of Margaret Oliphant's literary oeuvre could secure canonical status today, academic interest on her works was revived thanks to the AngloAmerican feminist project of resurrecting neglected works by women writers of the past centuries. Margaret Oliphant devoted her life to writing mostly because of financial reasons. She was producing both fictional and non-fictional pieces at an incredible speed. This enabled her opportunity to voice her opinions on the social, political and literary movements of the Victorian era. Today, her personal position concerning political and social discussions of the period constitutes a major debate in contemporary Victorian studies. Her articles on the concerns of the Victorian Women's movement and her harsh criticism of the 1860s controversial sensational texts are today considered as narrative evidences of her conservatism. This essay thus aims to offer an analysis of two of her articles titled "Sensation Novels" (1862) and "Novels" (1867), which will hopefully reveal the pressure of moralistic aspects of Victorian literary criticism especially on sensation women novelists of the 1860s
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- ISSN: 1308-2922
- Yayın Aralığı: Yılda 6 Sayı
- Başlangıç: 2008
- Yayıncı: Pamukkale Üniversitesi