The Aga Saga

rumpy-pumpy

noun
noun, Brit

Sexual intercourse; also = hanky-panky noun 2. Also rumpty-tumpty. (1986 —) .

[Prob. elaborated from rump noun or a derivative.]



探討女性情感關係的小說:

The Aga Saga is a sub-genre of the family saga of literature. The genre is named for the AGA cooker, a type of stored-heat oven that came to be popular in medium to large country houses in the UK after its introduction in 1929. It refers primarily to fictional family sagas dealing with British "middle-class country or village life".^[1] The nickname "Aga Saga" is sometimes used condescendingly about this type of fiction.^[2] The term was incorporated into the Oxford Companion to English Literature in 2000.^[3]

Contents  [hide]  1 Characteristics 2 Critical analyses 3 Origin 4 Notes 5 Further reading

[edit] Characteristics

While the label has been applied to settings within other genres,^[4] it is typically interpreted to refer to "a tale of illicit rumpy-pumpy in the countryside" according to a 2007 article in The Observer.^[5] In setting, according to an earlier article in that paper, it offers a "gingham-checked world" associated with "thatched English villages" and "ladies in floral dresses".^[6] Guardian book critic Laura Wilson described an Aga Saga setting as "complete with sprawling, untidy farmhouse (flagstones, dogs, Wellington boots, and much nursing of mugs of coffee)".^[7]