The "raucous sexual flavor" of Miss Mackenzie

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.]

The "raucous sexual flavor" of the puns and what Michael Sadleir called the "faintly sordid" ambience of this book highlights its sexual project. For information on Arundel Street," see the online version of the 1888 Dickens Dictionary. These places are socially and through location not kept apart from the Rubb and Mackenzie tradesman shop, Ball aristocratic country house, and Slow and Bideawhile attorney's offices. Michael Sadleir's phrase is quoted in Smalley, 215. See Margaret Markwick on the sexual puns and vulgar jokes in Trollope's novels. I highlighted the mocking irony of the bawdy puns both in He Knew He Was Right and Miss Mackenzie in my Trollope on the Net, p. 74. In He Knew He Was Right, the smooth-talking ideal hero who chases a heroine around a glass table is Glascock; the heroines are imprisoned in Nuncombe Priory in Cockchaffington.

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