It is described by the author as "A comedy of manners with music (period 1860)".
It can be classified as a comedy of manners.
I guess it is a modern comedy of manners with some very serious aspects.
But then you realize that the picture is a comedy of American manners.
It is a farcial comedy of manners set amongst the working class.
It has often been said that she writes comedies of manners.
In its own day, it was a slight, stylish but still radical comedy of sexual manners.
This novel is surprisingly frank about the subject, especially for a comedy of manners published in 1958.
Is it a novel of ideas or a comedy of manners?
A lovely comedy of manners set in Russia in 1913.
