What is it that relates Austen and Trollope, Bronte and Dickens to Eliot, James, Hardy and Ford? How do novels like "Pride and Prejudice" and "Barchester Towers" and novels like "Wuthering Heights" and "Great Expectations" become part of "Middlemarch", "The Portrait of a Lady", "Jude the Obscure" and "Parade's End"? For Joseph Wiesenfarth, the relationships and connections are bound up in what he calls Gothic Manners. His argument is that the salient elements of two genres, that of the novel of manners and that of the new Gothic novel, come together and form a synthesis which accounts, in good part, for the greatness of "classical" English fiction.
- ISBN10 0299119041
- ISBN13 9780299119041
- Publish Date 15 September 1988
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 17 October 2003
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Wisconsin Press
- Format Paperback (UK Trade)
- Pages 248
- Language English