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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.
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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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Pride and Prejudice is the second novel by English author Jane Austen, published in 1813. A novel of manners, it follows the character development of Elizabeth Bennet, the protagonist of the book, who learns about the repercussions of hasty judgments and comes to appreciate the difference between superficial goodness and actual goodness.
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.
The omnipresence of personal surveillance comes to seem a metaphor for the function of manners in polite society. If manners, considered as adjuncts to morality, reveal their possessors' concern and consideration for others, as adjuncts to society they provide testimony of compliance.
Evelina, novel of manners by Frances Burney, published anonymously in 1778. The novel was Burney’s first work, and it revealed its 26-year-old author to be a keen social commentator with an ear for dialect. Evelina traces the social development of an indifferently reared young girl who is unsure of.
