Aga saga

The Aga saga is a subgenre of the family saga genre 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]

  1. ^ Aga Saga, Oxford Companion to English Literature. Hosted at enotes.com. Retrieved on 29 May 2009.
  2. ^ Kington, Miles. (20 February 2007) A sorry saga of disparaging literary labelling The Independent (London). Retrieved on 29 May 2008.
  3. ^ Ezard, John. (21 September 2000.) Kathy Acker replaces Walter Scott in reference work The Guardian. Retrieved on 29 May 2008.