THE AMERICAN NOVEL OF MANNERS
James W. Tuttleton
SOURCE: "The Sociological Matrix of the Novel of Manners," in The Novel of Manners in America, The University of North Carolina Press, 1972, pp. 7-19.
[In the excerpt below, Tuttleton recounts and refutes claims that the novel of manners is not a viable form in American literature.]
The charge that the novel is dead, so often heard in the literary criticism of the 1950s, is today a dead issue.
There is one type of novel, though, which is generally held to be deader than...
Source: Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism, ©1997 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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