It is described by the author as "A comedy of manners with music (period 1860)".

It can be classified as a comedy of manners.

I guess it is a modern comedy of manners with some very serious aspects.

But then you realize that the picture is a comedy of American manners.

It is a farcial comedy of manners set amongst the working class.

It has often been said that she writes comedies of manners.

In its own day, it was a slight, stylish but still radical comedy of sexual manners.

This novel is surprisingly frank about the subject, especially for a comedy of manners published in 1958.

Is it a novel of ideas or a comedy of manners?

A lovely comedy of manners set in Russia in 1913.