Trollope's sympathetic portraits of non-heroic men

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.]

To name a few: Alaric and Charles Tudor in The Three Clerks, John Eames and Adolphus Crosbie in The Small House at Allington, Samuel Crocker in Marion Fay, and the alcoholic scholar, Julius Mackenzie in "The Spotted Dog;" John Grey in Can You Forgive Her? (who loves to read about the counter-revolution in France and Carlyle's French Revolution, also a book Lily Dale escapes to); Daniel Caldigate, the loyal father of John, imprisoned for bigamy, Sir Thomas Underdowne, with his illusion of the great work on Francis Bacon he will yet write, in the meantime prowling the streets at dawn, and attempting to be elected at Percycross (Ralph the Heir), Archie Clavering and Captain Boodles (The Claverings) and also perhaps Owen Fitzgerald and Sir Patrick in Castle Richmond (a young and older man in love), and from Thady Macdermot's father to Cousin Henry through to Mr Scarborough. Terry, 164-70; Cockshut, 52-66. See also Overton.

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