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MUSEUMS AND MANNERS: THE NOVELS OF ALISON LURIE

MUSEUMS AND MANNERS: THE NOVELS OF ALISON LURIE Alison Lurie's novels continue, deliberately and with a great deal of verve, the tradition of the novel of manners - running to and exploiting such interesting American variants of the genre äs the international novel, the campus novel and the Hollywood novel. The extent of her indebtedness to each of these is apparent even in what her agents read and in how they react to their reading. Having them feel like characters in a novel by Henry James, äs happens to Leonard Zimmern in Real People äs well äs to Fred Turner in Foreign Affairs, is perhaps the author's most obvious invocation of the tradition that she works in. At the same time that particular experience - a repeated one even, in terms of either novel - is an indication of an awareness on Lurie's own part äs well äs on the part of her agents of the complex fate of following and of having to follow in the footsteps of a master. To demonstrate that the tradition has not by any means been exhausted thus seems to have been äs much of a motivation for the author äs that of demonstrating the continucd uecfulness of the novel http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Anglia - Zeitschrift für englische Philologie de Gruyter

MUSEUMS AND MANNERS: THE NOVELS OF ALISON LURIE

KRUSE, HORST
Anglia - Zeitschrift für englische Philologie , Volume 1993 (111) – Jan 1, 1993
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0340-5222
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10.1515/angl.1993.1993.111.410
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Alison Lurie's novels continue, deliberately and with a great deal of verve, the tradition of the novel of manners - running to and exploiting such interesting American variants of the genre äs the international novel, the campus novel and the Hollywood novel. The extent of her indebtedness to each of these is apparent even in what her agents read and in how they react to their reading. Having them feel like characters in a novel by Henry James, äs happens to Leonard Zimmern in Real People äs well äs to Fred Turner in Foreign Affairs, is perhaps the author's most obvious invocation of the tradition that she works in. At the same time that particular experience - a repeated one even, in terms of either novel - is an indication of an awareness on Lurie's own part äs well äs on the part of her agents of the complex fate of following and of having to follow in the footsteps of a master. To demonstrate that the tradition has not by any means been exhausted thus seems to have been äs much of a motivation for the author äs that of demonstrating the continucd uecfulness of the novel

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Anglia - Zeitschrift für englische Philologie – de Gruyter

Published: Jan 1, 1993

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