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The Novel of Manners: Evelina: Or the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World (1779), by Frances Burney. The novel of manners is a work of fiction that re-creates a social world, conveying with detailed observation the complex of customs, values, and mores of a stratified society.
Novel of manners, work of fiction that re-creates a social world, conveying with finely detailed observation the customs, values, and mores of a highly developed and complex society. The conventions of the society dominate the story, and characters are differentiated by the degree to which they.
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Pride and Prejudice is the second novel by English author Jane Austen, published in 1813. A novel of manners, it follows the character development of Elizabeth Bennet, the protagonist of the book, who learns about the repercussions of hasty judgments and comes to appreciate the difference between superficial goodness and actual goodness.
- Classic Regency novel, Romance novel
- Jane Austen
- 28 January 1813
- T. Egerton, Whitehall
A courtesy book (also book of manners) was a didactic manual of knowledge for courtiers to handle matters of etiquette, socially acceptable behaviour, and personal morals, with an especial emphasis upon life in a royal court; the genre of courtesy literature dates from the 13th century.
A society in which behaviour is codified, language restricted to impersonal formulas, and the expression of feeling muted, is the province of the novel of manners, and such fiction may be produced as readily in the 20th century as in the era of Fanny Burney or Jane Austen.
The Novel of Manners | Novel Beginnings: Experiments in Eighteenth-Century English Fiction | Yale Scholarship Online | Oxford Academic. Chapter. Six The Novel of Manners. Patricia Meyer Spacks. https://doi.org/10.12987/yale/9780300110319.003.0006. Pages. 160–190. Published: May 2006. Split View. Cite. Permissions. Share. Abstract.
Jan 20, 2021 · “ The Custom of the Country ” (1913), like much that Edith Wharton wrote, can be described as a novel of manners. That’s to say, a social fiction in which the carefully observed customs of a...