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- catalog abstract ""Observers from Alexis de Tocqueville to Lionel Trilling have found the United States wanting in what it takes to produce a novelist of manners - namely, a rich enough past and sufficiently stratified classes. In a work that recovers the broader meaning of "manners" for past generations, Susan Goodman demonstrates that American writers have consistently tied the subject of national identity to the norms and behaviors of everyday life - that, in fact, the novel of manners is a dominant form of American fiction." "Goodman concentrates on a cluster of writers - William Dean Howells, Henry James, Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, Ellen Glasgow, and Jessie Fauset - whose analyses of manners offer several distinct social histories. Under her scrutiny, these writers' works allow us to view the creative interaction of individual lives, social dynamics, and historical legacies - what might be called the panorama of manners themselves - as well as the development of American fiction. Above all, Goodman shows that novels of manners are central to American literature, and that these novels speak in a large cultural way about who and what composes America."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12844088.
- catalog created "c2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "c2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2003.".
- catalog description ""Observers from Alexis de Tocqueville to Lionel Trilling have found the United States wanting in what it takes to produce a novelist of manners - namely, a rich enough past and sufficiently stratified classes. In a work that recovers the broader meaning of "manners" for past generations, Susan Goodman demonstrates that American writers have consistently tied the subject of national identity to the norms and behaviors of everyday life - that, in fact, the novel of manners is a dominant form of American fiction." "Goodman concentrates on a cluster of writers - William Dean Howells, Henry James, Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, Ellen Glasgow, and Jessie Fauset - whose analyses of manners offer several distinct social histories. Under her scrutiny, these writers' works allow us to view the creative interaction of individual lives, social dynamics, and historical legacies - what might be called the panorama of manners themselves - as well as the development of American fiction. Above all, Goodman shows that novels of manners are central to American literature, and that these novels speak in a large cultural way about who and what composes America."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-189) and index.".
- catalog description "William Dean Howells : the lessons of a master -- Henry James : the final paradox of manners -- Edith Wharton : a backward glance -- Willa Cather : after 1922 or thereabout -- Ellen Glasgow : the social history of America -- Jessie Fauset : the etiquette of passing.".
- catalog extent "xv, 198 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Civil wars.".
- catalog identifier "0801868246 (hardcover : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Civil wars.".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "c2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press,".
- catalog relation "Civil wars.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "American fiction 19th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "American fiction 20th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Literature and society United States History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Literature and society United States History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Manners and customs in literature.".
- catalog subject "PS374.M33 G66 2003".
- catalog tableOfContents "William Dean Howells : the lessons of a master -- Henry James : the final paradox of manners -- Edith Wharton : a backward glance -- Willa Cather : after 1922 or thereabout -- Ellen Glasgow : the social history of America -- Jessie Fauset : the etiquette of passing.".
- catalog title "Civil wars : American novelists and manners, 1880-1940 / Susan Goodman.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".