Genre
Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice: Genre 1 key example

Genre
Explanation and Analysis:

As a “novel of manners,” Pride and Prejudice focuses on its characters’ subtle behaviors (or “manners”) that signal their particular positions within the socioeconomic hierarchy of their specific society. Austen does not spend much time vividly describing scenery or engaging in lyrical language. Instead, she pays attention to all of the minutiae of social interactions, including the ways that Elizabeth’s family members betray their lower social standing in front of Darcy and Bingley as well as attempts by characters to share their displeasure in roundabout or “polite” ways.