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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.
A society in which behavior 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.
A novel of manners is a genre that focuses on the social customs, values, and behaviors of a specific social class or group. It often provides a detailed examination of the characters' interactions and relationships within the context of their societal norms, revealing the complexities and intricacies of social etiquette and class distinctions.
This chapter focuses its attention to the details that create and form the novel of manners. During the final decades of the eighteenth century, a new subgenre evolved through the experiments of female writers whose works focused on social detail.
The novel of manners describes in detail the customs, behaviors, habits, and expectations of a certain social group at a specific time and place . Usually these conventions shape the behavior of the main characters, and sometimes even stifle or repress them. Often the novel of manners is satiric, and it always realistic in depiction.
The Novel of Manners, which developed in the 19th century, portrays with detailed realism of the social customs, conversation, conventions, traditions, the ways of thinking and valuing of the people of a social class, and shared habits of a given social group at a particular time and place and explores as well as demonstrates the powerful ...
