Reading and Writing Women's Lives

A Study of the Novel of Manners

Häftad, Engelska, 2010

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum:2010-11-01
Mått:152 x 229 x 15 mm
Vikt:378 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:248
Förlag:Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN:9781580463768

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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.

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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