fantasy of manners

Meaning

Noun

A literary work in a fantasy genre that is also a comedy of manners.

Origin

Modelled on earlier comedy of manners. First used in print by science fiction critic Donald G. Keller in the April 1991 issue of The New York Review of Science Fiction.

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