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The contributors to this volume -- including Carolyn G. Heilbrun, Janet Egleson Dunleavy, James R. Kincaid and Joseph Wiesenfarth -- focus on how men and [particularly] women respond to the ideological pressure of manners for their gender and class as they attempt to define themselves in the novel of manners. Focusing on literary, feminist, and general political concerns, the essays explore the relationships between society's and literature's conventions in works by Jane Austen, Anthony Trollope, George Eliot, Henry James, Virginia Woolf and Barbara Pym, among others. Bege K. Bowers is Associate Provost at Youngstown State University. Barbara Brothers is Professor Emeritus, Youngstown State University.
Price: $29.99
Pages: 248
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Inc.
Imprint: University of Rochester Press
Publication Date:
01 November 2010
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9781580463768
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, Literature: history and criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist
Each essay in the volume offers a precise analysis of a particular author, novel, or set of novels. . . . The real value of the volume emerges, however, when the essays are taken as a whole. Carefully read and contemplated in relation to one another, they lead, as the editors had hoped, to a revision of our understanding and evaluation of the entire novel of manners tradition.
Acknowledgments
Introduction: What is a Novel of Manners? - Barbara Brothers and Bege K. Bowers
1. Jane Austen and Psychological Realism: "What Does a Woman Want?" - Gloria Sybil Gross
2. Jane Austen's Garrulous Speakers: Social Criticism in Sense and Sensibility, Emma, and Persuasion - Marylea Meyersohn
3. Maria Edgeworth and the Novel of Manners - Janet Egleson Dunleavy
4. Men, Women, and Manners in Wives and Daughters - Maureen T. Reddy
5. Anthony Trollope and the Unmannerly Novel - James R. Kincaid
6. George Eliot's Middlemarch and the "Text" of the Novel of Manners - Bege K. Bowers
7. The Portrait of a Lady: Gothic Manners in Europe - Joseph Wiesenfarth
8. "'I' Rejected; 'We' Substituted": Self and Society in Between the Acts - Mark Hussey
9. Love, Marriage, and Manners in the Novels of Barbara Pym - Barbara Brothers
10. The View from the Outside: Black Novels of Manners - Mary F. Sisney
11. The Detective Novel of Manners - Carolyn G. Heilbrun
12. Conventions of Comedies of Manners and British Novels about Academic Life - John Wilkinson
Contributors
Works Cited
Index
Introduction: What is a Novel of Manners? - Barbara Brothers and Bege K. Bowers
1. Jane Austen and Psychological Realism: "What Does a Woman Want?" - Gloria Sybil Gross
2. Jane Austen's Garrulous Speakers: Social Criticism in Sense and Sensibility, Emma, and Persuasion - Marylea Meyersohn
3. Maria Edgeworth and the Novel of Manners - Janet Egleson Dunleavy
4. Men, Women, and Manners in Wives and Daughters - Maureen T. Reddy
5. Anthony Trollope and the Unmannerly Novel - James R. Kincaid
6. George Eliot's Middlemarch and the "Text" of the Novel of Manners - Bege K. Bowers
7. The Portrait of a Lady: Gothic Manners in Europe - Joseph Wiesenfarth
8. "'I' Rejected; 'We' Substituted": Self and Society in Between the Acts - Mark Hussey
9. Love, Marriage, and Manners in the Novels of Barbara Pym - Barbara Brothers
10. The View from the Outside: Black Novels of Manners - Mary F. Sisney
11. The Detective Novel of Manners - Carolyn G. Heilbrun
12. Conventions of Comedies of Manners and British Novels about Academic Life - John Wilkinson
Contributors
Works Cited
Index