Trollope's HeroinesIs He Popenjoy? and Ayala's Angel

Ellen Moody

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[This document is a note to the author's Trollope's Comfort Romances for Men: Heterosexual Male Heroism in his Work — GPL.]

Similar heroines include Emily Trevelyan (He Knew He Was Right) and Mary Lovelace. Compare Trollope, Is He Popenjoy?, 63-70. I discuss parallel scenes and configurations of sexual jealousy in He Knew He Was Right in Trollope on the Net, 51-63, 71-80. See also apRoberts, "Emily and Nora and Dorothy and Priscilla and Jemima and Carry," 87-120; and Gatrell.

For a perceptive defense of the masochistic aesthetic as "imaginatively radical," not reactionary, see McClure's "A Recent Martyr." The argument is that masochism or suffering protagonies lay bare the power structure as no other typology can. On a scathing and unsympathetic but remarkably lucid presentation of how protest fiction depends on masochistic victims, see James Baldwin's "Everybody's Protest Novel."

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