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...David K. Kirby The Novel of Manners in America . By Tuttleton James W. . Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press , 1972 . Pp. [ xvi ], 304 . $10.00 . Copyright © 1973 by Duke University Press 1973 Book Reviews 169 The Poetry of John Crowe Ransom. By Miller...

.... The novel of manners isn t for every­ one, of course, and those who question the validity of Tuttleton s con­ cern will probably find that the final chapter is, in terms of the prevailing literary orthodoxy, the most heretical. Here Tuttleton takes pokes at Norman Mailer, Norman Podhoretz, and other members...

... that the boy hero of No. 9 is a totally different person from the man of No. 1. As a whole this illwritten, overpriced book adds nothing significant to the studies of Ransom available more cheaply elsewhere. UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA IRVIN EHRENPREIS The Novel of Manners in America. By James W. Tuttleton. Chapel...

... actually happens. Indeed, it would be accurate to label In the City of Fear a novel of manners, so much is it dependent on nuances of social behavior and the intricacies of conversation. In The Novel of Manners in America, James Tuttleton suggests as a definition of the American novel of manners...

... of community. Historical skepticism, not parochial nostalgia, informs Wharton s assessment of a communalism that seeks to maintain homo­ geneous customs and kinship networks. She reaches through the intervening decades of history to reconstruct archeologically, as it were a lost city, as James Tuttleton has...