The Novel Of Manners In America

Author : James W. Tuttleton
Publisher : Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : American fiction
ISBN : UCAL:B4376157

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The Novel of Manners in America by James W. Tuttleton Pdf

This new book offers a broad critical survey of a significant form of American fiction that has long been in need of serious attention. In the first full treatment of the subject, James W. Tuttleton describes the form, elucidating its typical themes, and shows how various important and representative writers have brought the form to life.

Author : Donald G. Darnell
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0874134870

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James Fenimore Cooper by Donald G. Darnell Pdf

Examination of etiquette in fifteen of Cooper's novels

Author : Thomas Hamilton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1833
Category : Canada
ISBN : HARVARD:32044011626793

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Men and Manners in America by Thomas Hamilton Pdf

Author : Frances Trollope
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199676873

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Domestic Manners of the Americans by Frances Trollope Pdf

Originally published: London: Whittaker, Treacher, & Co., 1832.

Author : Jerome Klinkowitz
Publisher : Athens : University of Georgia Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1986-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 082030817X

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The New American Novel of Manners by Jerome Klinkowitz Pdf

Author : Jerome Klinkowitz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0820339423

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The New American Novel of Manners by Jerome Klinkowitz Pdf

Explores the virtual reinvention of the novel of manners in America out of the same subjectivity that charged the works of New Journalism. In place of the rigid social structures that never seemed to depict America, novelists such as Richard Yates, Dan Wakefield, and Thomas McGuane located America's modern-day manners in its semiotics.

Author : Frances Milton Trollope
Publisher : London : Whittaker, Treacher ; New York : reprinted for the booksellers
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1832
Category : History
ISBN : UCSD:31822043036425

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Domestic Manners of the Americans by Frances Milton Trollope Pdf

Published in 1832, the book presents a lively portrait of early 19th-century America as observed by a woman of rare intelligence and keen perception. Trollope left no stone unturned, commenting on American dress, food, speech, politics, manners, customs, the landscape, architecture, and more - often critically but always with considerable insight and literary flair.

Author : Kimberly Freeman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2004-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135885380

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Love American Style by Kimberly Freeman Pdf

A popular subject in sociology and cultural studies, divorce has until recently been overlooked by literary critics. Spanning nearly a century during which the divorce rate skyrocketed, Love American Style traces the treatment of divorce in the American novel. This book draws upon popular, sociological, political and architectural history to illustrate how divorce reflects conflicting ideologies and notions of American identity. Focusing primarily on work by William Dean Howells, Edith Wharton, Mary McCarthy and John Updike, Kimberly Freeman delineates a system of tropes particular to divorce in American novels, such as the association of divorce with the West and modernity, the dismantling of the home, and the disruption of the boundary between the public and the private. These tropes suggest a literary tradition of love, marriage and divorce that is central to twentieth century American fiction. Offering an explanation for both the treatment of divorce in the American novel as well as its predominance in American culture, this book should appeal to scholars of American literature and popular culture, or anyone interested in how divorce has become so 'American'.

Author : Catharine Maria Sedgwick
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781770482883

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Clarence by Catharine Maria Sedgwick Pdf

Honorable mention recipient for the 2012 Society for the Study of American Women Writers Award. A pioneering American novel of manners first published in 1830, Catharine Sedgwick’s Clarence follows heiress Gertrude Clarence as she negotiates the perils of the marriage market in New York City. Giving Gertrude’s family English and Caribbean histories, Sedgwick aligns the United States in the 1820s with a larger Atlantic world. This edition of Sedgwick’s cosmopolitan novel will contribute to a rethinking both of the history of the American novel of manners and to the shape of Sedgwick’s career as one of the most important novelists of the first half of the nineteenth century. This Broadview edition offers a rich selection of contextual materials, including selections from Sedgwick’s correspondence and journals reconstructing the origins of the novel, engravings and lithographs of key sites in the novel, American and British reviews of the novel, and documentation of the author’s revised edition of 1849.

Author : Frances Trollope
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-02
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781554811113

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Domestic Manners of the Americans by Frances Trollope Pdf

Frances Trollope’s Domestic Manners of the Americans, complemented by Auguste Hervieu’s satiric illustrations, took the transatlantic world by storm in 1832. An unusual combination of realism, visual satire, and novelistic detail, Domestic Manners recounts Trollope’s three years as an Englishwoman living in America. Trollope makes the civility of an entire nation the subject of her keen scrutiny, a strategy that would earn her, in the words of the critic Michael Sadleir, “more anger and applause than almost any writer of her day.” Auguste Hervieu’s twenty-four original illustrations, placed and scaled as in the first edition, are included in this Broadview Edition, inviting readers to experience the original relationship of image and text.

Author : Matthew J. Bruccoli
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1975-07-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780822974710

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The O’Hara Concern by Matthew J. Bruccoli Pdf

The definitive biography of short story writer John O’Hara.

Author : Henry James
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1543072267

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The American by Henry James Pdf

The American A social comedy about Christopher Newman, an American businessman on his first tour of Europe. Along the way, he finds a widow from an aristocratic French family.

Author : Michael J. Hoffman,Patrick D. Murphy
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0822318237

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Essentials of the Theory of Fiction by Michael J. Hoffman,Patrick D. Murphy Pdf

This second edition of Essentials of the Theory of Fiction provides a comprehensive view of the theory of fiction from the nineteenth century, through modernism and postmodernism, to the present. Expanded and revised, it has new selections from contemporary theorists, including Henry Louis Gates Jr., Peter Brooks, Linda Hutcheon, David Lodge, Barbara Foley, and others. Selections from: M. M. Bakhtin, John Barth, Roland Barthes, Wayne Booth, Peter Brooks, Seymour Chatman, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Suzanne C. Ferguson, Barbara Foley, E. M. Forster, Joseph Frank, William Freedman, Norman Friedman, Joanne S. Frye, William H. Gass, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Gérard Genette, J. Arthur Honeywell, Linda Hutcheon, Henry James, Susan S. Lanser, Mitchell A. Leaska, George Levine, David Lodge, Georg Lukács, Gerald Prince, Patrocinio P. Schweickart, Tzvetan Todorov, Lionel Trilling, and Virginia Woolf

Author : Gordon Milne
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0838619274

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The Sense of Society by Gordon Milne Pdf

Combines a historical survey of the American novel of manners with concentrated attention on the major practitioners of the genre: James, Howells, Wharton, Glasgow, Marquand, and Auchincloss.

Author : Laura Claridge
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780812967418

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Emily Post by Laura Claridge Pdf

In an engaging book that sweeps from the Gilded Age to the 1960s, award-winning author Laura Claridge presents the first authoritative biography of Emily Post, who changed the mindset of millions of Americans with Etiquette, a perennial bestseller and touchstone of proper behavior. A daughter of high society and one of Manhattan’s most sought-after debutantes, Emily Price married financier Edwin Post. It was a hopeful union that ended in scandalous divorce. But the trauma forced Emily Post to become her own person. After writing novels for fifteen years, Emily took on a different sort of project. When it debuted in 1922, Etiquette represented a fifty-year-old woman at her wisest–and a country at its wildest. Claridge addresses the secret of Etiquette’s tremendous success and gives us a panoramic view of the culture from which it took its shape, as its author meticulously updated her book twice a decade to keep it consistent with America’s constantly changing social landscape. Now, nearly fifty years after Emily Post’s death, we still feel her enormous influence on how we think Best Society should behave.