Gothic Manners and the Classic English Novel
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- ISBN 9780299119041
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 15 Sep 1988
- Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Joseph Wiesenfarth is professor emeritus of English at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He is the editor of two collections of essays on Ford and the author of six books, including Gothic Manners and the Classic English Novel, also published by the University of Wisconsin Press.
