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Historic Novel

Set fiction in particular historical periods-historical, prehistoric, mythological


Walter Scott-Rob Roy, Ivanhoe


Leo Tolstoy -War & Peace


Robert Graves-I, Claudius


Mary Renault-The King Must Die


Virginia Wolf- Orlando

Picaresque Novel

Recounts adventures of rouge protagonist (picaro)


Miguel de Cervantes -Don Quixote


Henry fielding -Tom Jones

Titles are names of men.

Gothic novels

Features horror, mystery, suspense, superstition, supernatural, and revenge.



Originated as a reaction against 18th century Enlightenment rationalism



Mary Shelley-Frankenstein


Bram Stoker- Dracula


Horace Walpole -Castle of Otramto


Matthew Gregory Lewis- Monk


Anne Rice

Psychological Novels

Originating in 17th century France, explore character's motivations



Dostoyevsky- Crime & Punishment


Tolstoy- Anna Karenina


Gustavo Flaubert- Madame Bovery


James Joyce novels


George Elliot novels

Novels of Manner

Stories that observe, explore, and analyze the social behaviors of a specific time and place


Jane Austin-strongest example


Evelyn Waugh-Handful of Dust, Sword of Honor


Saki-The Unbearable Bassinton(focuses on the Edwardian society)

Emma's favorite author to quote

Sentimental Love Novels

Originated in the movement of Romanticism


*depicts emotional love rather than only physical love



18th century-Samuel Richardson-Pamela



Then Victorian Eras rejection of emotionalism caused the term "sentimental" to have an undesirable connotation.



19th cent. Charles Dickens-A Christmas Carol



20th Cent. Erich Segal-Love Story

Epistolary Novels

Told in the forms of letters written by their characters rather than the narrative form.


Samuel Richardson-Pamela(1740) & Clarissa(1748)


19th cent. Wilkie Collins The Moonstone(a mystery)


This was outdated by the 20th century.

Pastoral Novels

Lyrically idealized country life as idyllic and utopian, akin to the Garden of Eden