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Biography (2)

Laurence Oliphant

1,058 words, approx. 4 pages

Laurence Oliphant's works are rarely read, although they are quite unlike other Victorian novels. His life, fascinating in its complexity and with a tragic gap between his promise and his achievements... Read more

Laurence Oliphant

12,043 words, approx. 41 pages

Laurence Oliphant fascinated his contemporaries, and with good reason. Whereas most of his readers lived highly domesticated, practical lives peppered with an occasional vacation on the British seasho... Read more

Essays & Analysis (11)

Critical Essay by Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine

14,245 words, approx. 48 pages

In the following excerpt from Blackwood's, the anonymous critic examines the social context and spiritual evolution of the principle characters of Piccadilly. It would be impossible to imagine ... Read more

Critical Essay by Herbert W. Schneider and George Lawton

5,829 words, approx. 20 pages

Herbert W. Schneider is a professor emeritus who writes extensively with George Lawton on philosophy and religion. In the following excerpt, they describe Oliphant's theories of spirituality as... Read more

Critical Essay by Philip Henderson

1,617 words, approx. 6 pages

Philip Henderson was an English man of letters known for his studies of Christopher Marlowe and other English literary figures. In the following excerpt, he traces the development of Oliphant's... Read more

Critical Essay by The Athenaeum

2,807 words, approx. 10 pages

In the following review, the critic examines the characters in Altiora Peto and comments on the work as social satire. In Altiora Peto, as in Piccadilly, Mr. Oliphant presents himself to the novel-rea... Read more

Critical Essay by the Spectator

2,454 words, approx. 9 pages

In the following review, the anonymous critic praises Altiora Peto as a "brilliant picture of life and manners. ' A writer in the last number of the Quarterly Review expresses tart dissa... Read more

Critical Essay by The Saturday Review

2,256 words, approx. 8 pages

In the following article from the Saturday Review, the unsigned critic compares Altiora Peto with Piccadilly, and discusses Oliphant's views on humanism as revealed in the former. This story is... Read more

Critical Essay by E. Purcell

117 words, approx. 1 pages

In the following excerpt, Purcell denigrates Oliphant's portrayal of American and European society in Altiora Peto. Piccadilly had just enough of sketchy carelessness and improbability to pass ... Read more

Margaret Oliphant on Aitiora Peto:

1,267 words, approx. 5 pages

Altiors Peto was not published in "the Magazine" [Blackwell's], but was brought out independently during the next year in numbers, as the works of George Eliot had been—an ... Read more

Critical Essay by The Athenaeum

1,763 words, approx. 6 pages

In the following review from The Athenaeum, the unsigned critic describes Oliphant's travels in the decade following the Crimean War, which Oliphant chronicles in Episodes in a Life of Adventur... Read more

Critical Essay by The Critic

1,421 words, approx. 5 pages

In the following review of Scientific Religion, the critic discusses Oliphant's life and his responses to detractors. A new Timon of Athens, if we are to take him at his own estimate, is among ... Read more

Critical Essay by Sara A. Underwood

1,857 words, approx. 7 pages

In the following excerpt, British critic Sara Underwood discusses the spiritual ideals described in Sympneumata. In the future, when men shall know more of life's spiritual side than the majori... Read more

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