Up to that point truth had always been conceived as existing more or less in the novel of manners.

Because of Austen's works, the novel of manners is mostly associated with the early 19th century.

But it doesn't violate the formula if, lurking between the lines, there's a novel of manners, mostly bad.

It was a fiction where women in society were shown in realistic, modern ways - the novel of manners.

Novels of manners, they are arch, proper and slightly melancholy - very Mitteleuropa.

He deserves serious notice among the earlier writers who helped to develop the novel of manners in the Spain of the 19th century.

The novel of manners often shows a conflict between individual aspirations or desires and the accepted social codes of behaviour.

Well known examples of the novel of manners include:

His novel of manners, Finnley Wren, was also highly regarded in its time.

Another feature that differs from the novel of manners is the outcome of the novel.

Vachon's broad comic tendency keeps intruding on the novel of manners he seems to want to write.

Ethnic Mix in Hospitals The tone is that of a novel of manners.

In Gothic fiction, the outcome is not always the positive reinforcement of morals that the novel of manners offers.

Another theory for the emergence and growth of the novel of manners is that the changes taking place in English society were eroding the class boundaries.

Changes in the social hierarchy were taking place due to leaps in technology and the novel of manners was a way to reestablish this class order.

It is a superb novel of manners the code of which the reader never quite cracks, and that also would have appealed to Nabokov.

The main link between the novel of manners and the Gothic novel is the language of manners.

Calvary (contemporary novel of manners), Barcelona: Montaner and Simon, 1905.

Only eight bodies turn up in the 10 Cross books, but lacerations to academic egos are severe in these astringent novels of manners.

But none of these flaws detract from the book's singular achievement, which is to quietly nudge the novel of manners in a more provocative direction.

Encyclopædia Britannica describes Evelina as a "landmark in the development of the novel of manners".

In 1778, Frances Burney wrote Evelina, one of the first legitimate novels of manners.

It seems that Sarah Burney's father was unenthusiastic about her first work, Clarentine, a novel of manners.

Come to think of it, that's not just the lesson of "Emma" and other novels of manners; it's the lesson of television itself.

As an essayist on literature and culture and as a scholar of the work and the novel of manners, he earned international distinction.