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.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: What is a Novel of Manners? - Barbara Brothers and Bege K. Bowers1. Jane Austen and Psychological Realism: "What Does a Woman Want?" - Gloria Sybil Gross2. Jane Austen's Garrulous Speakers: Social Criticism in Sense and Sensibility, Emma, and Persuasion - Marylea Meyersohn3. Maria Edgeworth and the Novel of Manners - Janet Egleson Dunleavy4. Men, Women, and Manners in Wives and Daughters - Maureen T. Reddy5. Anthony Trollope and the Unmannerly Novel - James R. Kincaid6. George Eliot's Middlemarch and the "Text" of the Novel of Manners - Bege K. Bowers7. The Portrait of a Lady: Gothic Manners in Europe - Joseph Wiesenfarth8. "'I' Rejected; 'We' Substituted": Self and Society in Between the Acts - Mark Hussey9. Love, Marriage, and Manners in the Novels of Barbara Pym - Barbara Brothers10. The View from the Outside: Black Novels of Manners - Mary F. Sisney11. The Detective Novel of Manners - Carolyn G. Heilbrun12. Conventions of Comedies of Manners and British Novels about Academic Life - John WilkinsonContributorsWorks CitedIndex

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.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: What is a Novel of Manners? - Barbara Brothers and Bege K. Bowers1. Jane Austen and Psychological Realism: "What Does a Woman Want?" - Gloria Sybil Gross2. Jane Austen's Garrulous Speakers: Social Criticism in Sense and Sensibility, Emma, and Persuasion - Marylea Meyersohn3. Maria Edgeworth and the Novel of Manners - Janet Egleson Dunleavy4. Men, Women, and Manners in Wives and Daughters - Maureen T. Reddy5. Anthony Trollope and the Unmannerly Novel - James R. Kincaid6. George Eliot's Middlemarch and the "Text" of the Novel of Manners - Bege K. Bowers7. The Portrait of a Lady: Gothic Manners in Europe - Joseph Wiesenfarth8. "'I' Rejected; 'We' Substituted": Self and Society in Between the Acts - Mark Hussey9. Love, Marriage, and Manners in the Novels of Barbara Pym - Barbara Brothers10. The View from the Outside: Black Novels of Manners - Mary F. Sisney11. The Detective Novel of Manners - Carolyn G. Heilbrun12. Conventions of Comedies of Manners and British Novels about Academic Life - John WilkinsonContributorsWorks CitedIndex

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.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: What is a Novel of Manners? - Barbara Brothers and Bege K. Bowers1. Jane Austen and Psychological Realism: "What Does a Woman Want?" - Gloria Sybil Gross2. Jane Austen's Garrulous Speakers: Social Criticism in Sense and Sensibility, Emma, and Persuasion - Marylea Meyersohn3. Maria Edgeworth and the Novel of Manners - Janet Egleson Dunleavy4. Men, Women, and Manners in Wives and Daughters - Maureen T. Reddy5. Anthony Trollope and the Unmannerly Novel - James R. Kincaid6. George Eliot's Middlemarch and the "Text" of the Novel of Manners - Bege K. Bowers7. The Portrait of a Lady: Gothic Manners in Europe - Joseph Wiesenfarth8. "'I' Rejected; 'We' Substituted": Self and Society in Between the Acts - Mark Hussey9. Love, Marriage, and Manners in the Novels of Barbara Pym - Barbara Brothers10. The View from the Outside: Black Novels of Manners - Mary F. Sisney11. The Detective Novel of Manners - Carolyn G. Heilbrun12. Conventions of Comedies of Manners and British Novels about Academic Life - John WilkinsonContributorsWorks CitedIndex